OVERVIEW PAPERS:

Overview of the TAC 2017 Adverse Reaction Extraction from Drug Labels Track
Kirk Roberts, Dina Demner-Fushman, Joseph M. Tonning
(The University of Texas Health Science Center; U.S. National Library of Medicine; U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

Overview of Linguistic Resources for the TAC KBP 2017 Evaluations: Methodologies and Results
Jeremy Getman, Joe Ellis, Zhiyi Song, Jennifer Tracey, Stephanie Strassel
(Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania)

Overview of TAC-KBP2017 13 Languages Entity Discovery and Linking
Heng Ji, Xiaoman Pan, Boliang Zhang, Joel Nothman, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Cash Costello
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University of Sydney; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

Events Detection, Coreference and Sequencing: What's next? Overview of the TAC KBP 2017 Event Track
Teruko Mitamura, Zhengzhong Liu, Eduard Hovy
(Carnegie Mellon University)

PARTICIPANT PAPERS (ordered by Team ID):

2089Pacific: EDL (Trilingual)
Improve Neural Mention Detection and Classification via Enforced Training and Inference Consistency
Huasha Zhao, Yi Yang, Qiong Zhang, and Luo Si
(Alibaba Group; Nanjing University)

A2KD_Adept: Cold Start KB Construction (Chinese), Cold Start KB Construction (Cross-Lingual), Cold Start KB Construction (English)
Adept Automatic Knowledge Discovery System for Cold Start Knowledge Base Population
Manaj Srivastava, David Trupiano, David Akodes, Ilana Heintz, Hannah Provenza, Bonan Min, Jay DeYoung, Lance Ramshaw, Roger Bock
(Raytheon BBN Technologies)

Albany: BeSt
Target Focused Sentiment Extraction Framework
Gregorios A Katsios, Meenakshi Alagesan, Arun Sharma, Tomek Strzalkowski
(ILS Institute and Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Albany)

BBN: Event (Argument Extraction and Linking)
BBN's 2017 KBP EAL Submission
Jay DeYoung, Yee Seng Chan, Chinnu Pittapally, Hannah Provenza, Ryan Gabbard, Marjorie Freedman
(Raytheon BBN Technologies; USC Information Sciences Institute)

Boun: Event (Sequence Detection), EDL (Trilingual)
Description of the BOUN System for the Trilingual Entity Detection and Linking Tasks at TAC KBP 2017
Arda Celebi and Arzucan Ozgur
(Bogazici University)

BUPT_PRIS: Event (Argument Extraction and Linking), Event (Nugget Detection), Event (Nugget Detection and Coreference), ADR
BUPT-PRIS System for TAC 2017 Event Nugget Detection, Event Argument Linking and ADR Tracks
Xiusen Gu, Chen Ding, Si Li and Weiran Xu
(Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System Laboratory, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

BUPTTeam: EDL (Trilingual)
BUPTTeam Participation at TAC 2017 Knowledge Base
Yongmei Tan, Hu Yang and Xiaoguang Li
(Center for Intelligence Science and Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

CHOP: ADR
Combining rule-based and neural network systems for extracting adverse reactions from drug labels
Anne Cocos, Aaron J. Masino
(The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)

CLUZH: Event (Nugget Detection)
UZH at TAC KBP 2017: Event Nugget Detection via Joint Learning with Softmax-Margin Objective
Peter Makarov, Simon Clematide
(Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich)

CMUCS_EDL: EDL (Trilingual)
CMU System for Entity Discovery and Linking at TAC-KBP 2017
Xuezhe Ma, Nicolas Fauceglia, Yiu-chang Lin, Eduard Hovy
(Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)

CMU_CS_Event: Event (Argument Extraction and Linking)
CMU CS Event TAC-KBP2017 Event Argument Extraction System
Andrew Hsi, Jaime Carbonell, Yiming Yang
(Carnegie Mellon University)

Columbia_GW: BeSt
The Columbia-GWU System at the 2017 TAC KBP BeSt Evaluation
Owen Rambow, Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Axinia Radeva, Sardar Hamidian, Tao Yu, Tianrui Peng, Christopher Hidey, Smaranda Muresan, Mona Diab, Kathleen McKeown
(Columbia University; George Washington University)

CONDL: ADR
Extracting Adverse Drug Reactions using Deep Learning and Dictionary Based Approaches
Mert Tiftikci, Arzucan Özgür, Yongqun He, Junguk Hur
(Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey; Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School; Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota)

coolcucumber: BeSt
The Cool Cucumber System at the 2017 TAC KBP BeSt Evaluation
Thanh-Son Nguyen, Yufang Hou, Charles Jochim, Elizabeth M. Daly, Lea A. Deleris
(IBM Research - Ireland)

CornMich: BeSt
Cornell Belief and Sentiment System at TAC 2017
Kai Sun, Claire Cardie
(Department of Computer Science, Cornell University)

CRIM: EDL (Trilingual)
CRIM’s Systems for the Tri-lingual Entity Detection and Linking Task
Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Caroline Barriere, Pierre Andre Menard
(Computer Research Institute of Montreal)

dsln_nlptt: Event (Nugget Detection)
NEC and Tokyo Institute of Technology in TAC KBP 2017: Multichannel Encoding and Stochastic Voting for Event Detection Model
Kai Ishikawa, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura
(Data Science Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation; Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

dws_uma: Slot Filling (English)
OpenIE for Slot Filling at TAC KBP 2017 - System Description
Samuel Broscheit, Kiril Gashteovski, Martin Achenbach
(Data and Web Science Group at the University of Mannheim)

GN_team: ADR
Extracting adverse drug reactions and their context using sequence labelling ensembles in TAC2017
Maksim Belousov, Nikola Milosevic, William Dixon, Goran Nenadic
(School of Computer Science, University of Manchester; Health eResearch Centre, Farr Institute, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester; Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, The University of Manchester; Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester)

hltcoe: Cold Start KB Construction (Chinese), Cold Start KB Construction (Cross-Lingual), Cold Start KB Construction (English), EDL (10 Low Resource Languages)
HLTCOE Participation in TAC KBP 2017: Cold Start and EDL Pilot
Tim Finin, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Cash Costello
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Loyola University; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

HZAUandJU: ADR
Adverse Reaction Identification Driven by Semantic Information
Kaiyin Zhou, Xing Zhang, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Ruiqing Liang, Yingying Jiang, Jingbo Xia
(Huazhong Agriculteral University; Jinan University; LIMSI, CRNS)

IBM: EDL (Trilingual), EDL (10 Low Resource Languages)
The IBM Systems for Entity Discovery and Linking at TAC 2017
Avirup Sil, Georgiana Dinu, Gourab Kundu, Radu Florian
(IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

IBM_Research: ADR
IBM Research System at TAC 2017: Adverse Drug Reactions Extraction from Drug Labels
Bharath Dandala, Diwakar Mahajan, Murthy Devarakonda
(IBM Research)

ICTCAS_OKN: Cold Start KB Construction (English)
The Open Knowledge System for TAC KBP 2017
Zixuan Li, Yunqi Qiu, Fan Yang, Xiaolong Jin, Yuanzhuo Wang, Yantao Jia, Haoran Yan, Kailin Zhao, Jialin Su
(CAS Key Laboratory of Network Data Science and Technology, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science)

ict_spring: BeSt
Ict_spring Belief and Sentiment System at TAC 2017
Yihan Ni, Bingbing Xu, Yue Zhao, Hui Du
(CAS Key Laboratory of Network Data Science and Technology, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

IRIS: EDL (Trilingual)
IRIS & LIMSI at TAC KBP Trilingual Entity Discovery and Linking 2017
Jose G. Moreno, Brigitte Grau
(Paul Sabatier University, Universite de Toulouse; LIMSI, CNRS)

ISCAS_Sogou: Cold Start KB Construction (Chinese)
ISCAS_Sogou at TAC-KBP 2017
Xianpei Han, Xiliang Song, Hongyu Lin, Qichen Zhu, Yaojie Lu, Le Sun, Jingfang Xu, Mingrong Liu, Ranxu Su, Sheng Shang, ChenWei Ran, FeiFei Xu
(Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Sougou Inc.)

KYOTOU: Event (Sequence and Parent-Child Detection)
KYOTOU at TAC KBP 2017 Event Track: Neural Network-based Event Sequence Classification Model
Tomohide Shibata, Hongkai Li, Tomohiro Sakaguchi, Sadao Kurohashi
(Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University)

lvic_event: Event (Nugget Detection)
CEA LIST Participation to the TAC 2017 Event Nugget Track
D. Kodelja, R. Besançon, O. Ferret, H. Le Borgne, E. Boros
(CEA, LIST, Vision and Content Engineering Laboratory)

MC_UC3M: ADR
MC-UC3M Participation at TAC 2017 Adverse Drug Reaction Extraction from Drug Labels
Jose L. Martinez, Isabel Segura-Bedmar, Paloma Martinez, Adrian Carruana, Ali Naderi, Conchi Polo
(MeaningCloud LLC; Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

newbie_mr_01: Cold Start KB Construction (English)
Looping Pipelining approach to Knowledge Base Population in Optimized Implementation
Fun Chan, Ka Kan Lo, Wai Yeung Chung
(Machine Reading Co.)

NLPandas: ADR
Adverse Reaction Extraction from Drug Labels Using LSTM Networks
Xuan Zhu, Mengxin Qian, David Guy Brizan
(University of San Francisco)

NUDT_PDL2017: EDL (Trilingual)
A Hybrid Model for Trilingual Entity Detection and Linking Tasks at TAC KBP 2017
Zhenzhen Li, Qun Zhang, Ting Li, Jun Xu, Dawei Feng
(College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China)

Oracle: ADR
Extracting Positive Mentions of Adverse Drug Reactions from Product Labels using a Machine Learning Centric Approach
Rave Harpaz, William DuMouchel
(Oracle Health Sciences)

PRNA_SUNY: ADR
Extracting and Normalizing Adverse Drug Reactions from Drug Labels
Carson Tao, Kahyun Lee, Michele Filannino, Kevin Buchan, Kathy Lee, Tilak Arora, Joey Liu, Oladimeji Farri, Ozlem Uzune
(State University of New York at Albany; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Philips Research North America; George Mason University)

rise_dcd_zju: EDL (Trilingual)
The ZHI-EDL System for Entity Discovery and Linking at TAC KBP 2017
Siliang Tang, Yankun Ren, Xiyuan Yang, Dan Liu, Guoping Hu, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang
(College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University; iFLYTEK Research)

RPI_BLENDER: EDL (Trilingual), EDL (10 Low Resource Languages)
RPI BLENDER TAC-KBP2017 13 Languages EDL System
Boliang Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Ying Lin, Tongtao Zhang, Kevin Blissett, Samia Kazemi, Spencer Whitehead, Lifu Huang, Heng Ji
(Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

SAFT_ISI: Cold Start KB Construction (Chinese), Cold Start KB Construction (English), Cold Start KB Construction (Spanish)
Multi-lingual Extraction and Integration of Entities, Relations, Events and Sentiments into ColdStart++ KBs with the SAFT System
Hans Chalupsky, Jun Araki, Eduard Hovy, Andrew Hsi, Zhengzhong Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Evangelia Spiliopoulou, Shuxin Yao
(USC Information Sciences Institute; Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)

SINAI: BeSt
SINAI at TAC-KBP BeST 2017: evaluating the impact of modal verbs in the classification of beliefs
Eladio Blanco Lopez, Fernando Martinez Santiago, Alberto Marin
(University of Jaen)

srcb: Event (Nugget Detection and Coreference), EDL (Trilingual)
SRCB Entity Discovery and Linking (EDL) and Event Nugget Systems for TAC 2017
Shanshan Jiang, Yihan Li, Tianyi Qin, Qian Meng, Bin Dong
(Ricoh Software Research Center (Beijing) Co.,Ltd.)

STANFORD: Cold Start KB Construction (Chinese), Slot Filling (Chinese), Cold Start KB Construction (Cross-Lingual), Slot Filling (Cross-Lingual), Cold Start KB Construction (English), Slot Filling (English), Cold Start KB Construction (Spanish), Slot Filling (Spanish)
Stanford at TAC KBP 2017: Building a Trilingual Relational Knowledge Graph
Arun Chaganty, Ashwin Paranjape, Jason Bolton, Matthew Lamm, Jinhao Lei, Abigail See, Kevin Clark, Yuhao Zhang, Peng Qi, Christopher D. Manning
(Stanford University)

SUMMA: EDL (Trilingual)
SUMMA at TAC Knowledge Base Population Task 2017
Afonso Mendes, David Nogueira, Samuel Broscheit, Filipe Aleixo, Pedro Balage, Rui Martins, Sebastiao Miranda, Mariana S. C. Almeida
(Priberam Labs; Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Instituto Superior Tecnico)

TAI: EDL (Trilingual)
The TAI System for Trilingual Entity Discovery and Linking Track in TAC KBP 2017
Tao Yang, Dong Du and Feng zhang
(Tencent AI Platform Department)

TAMUNLP: Event (Nugget Detection and Coreference)
TAMU at KBP 2017: Event Nugget Detection and Coreference Resolution
Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Ruihong Huang
(Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University)

TinkerBell: Cold Start KB Construction (Chinese), Cold Start KB Construction (Cross-Lingual), Cold Start KB Construction (English), Cold Start KB Construction (Spanish)
TinkerBell: Cross-lingual Cold-Start Knowledge Base Construction
Mohamed Al-Badrashiny, Jason Bolton, Arun Tejavsi Chaganty, Kevin Clark, Craig Harman, Lifu Huang, Matthew Lamm, Jinhao Lei, Di Lu, Xiaoman Pan, Ashwin Paranjape, Ellie Pavlick, Haoruo Peng, Peng Qi, Pushpendre Rastogi, Abigail See, Kai Sun, Max Thomas, Chen-Tse Tsai, Hao Wu, Boliang Zhang, Chris Callison-Burch, Claire Cardie, Heng Ji, Christopher Manning, Smaranda Muresan, Owen C. Rambow, Dan Roth, Mark Sammons, Benjamin Van Durme
(Columbia University; Cornell University; Johns Hopkins University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Stanford University; University of Pennsylvania)

trddc_iiith: ADR
TCS Research at TAC 2017: Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations from Drug Labels using an Ensemble of Neural Networks
Sachin Pawar, Girish K. Palshikar, Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Nitin Ramrakhiyani, Shashank Gupta, Vasudeva Varma
(TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services; Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad)

Ugglan: EDL (Trilingual)
Overview of the Ugglan Entity Discovery and Linking System
Marcus Klang, Firas Dib, Pierre Nugues
(Lund University)

UI_CCG: Event (Nugget Detection), Event (Nugget Detection and Coreference), EDL (Trilingual)
UI CCG TAC-KBP2017 Submissions: Entity Discovery and Linking, and Event Nugget Detection and Co-reference
Chase Duncan, Liang-Wei Chan, Haoruo Peng, Hao Wu, Shyam Upadhyay, Nitish Gupta, Chen-Tse Tsai, Mark Sammons, Dan Roth
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Pennsylvania)

UNIST_SAIL: Slot Filling (English)
UNIST SAIL System for TAC 2017 Cold Start Slot Filling
Seongwoo Lim, Soonjae Kwon, Sehyun Lee, Jaesik Choi
(School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

UTD: Event (Nugget Detection and Coreference)
UTD’s Event Nugget Detection and Coreference System at KBP 2017
Jing Lu, Vincent Ng
(Human Language Technology Research Institute, University of Texas at Dallas)

UTH_CCB: ADR
UTH_CCB System for Adverse Drug Reaction Extraction from Drug Labels at TAC-ADR 2017
Jun Xu, Hee-Jin Lee, Zongcheng Ji, Jingqi Wang, Qiang Wei, Hua Xu
(The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)

wip: Event (Nugget Detection)
WIP Event Detection System at TAC KBP 2017 Event Nugget Track
Ying Zeng, Yansong Feng, Dongyan Zhao
(Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University)

Y_dcd_zju: Slot Filling (English)
The Y dcd zju Slot Filling System for TAC KBP 2017
Siliang Tang, Yujin Yuan, Ruowei Jiang, Jinjian Zhang, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang
(College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University; University of Toronto)

YorkNRM: EDL (Trilingual)
FOFE-based Deep Neural Networks for Entity Discovery and Linking
Mingbin Xu, Nargiza Nosirova, Kelvin Jiang, Feng Wei, Hui Jiang
(Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University)

zy: Event (Nugget Detection)
IECAS Event Detection System at TAC KBP 2017 Event Nugget Track
Yunyan Zhang, Tinglei Huang, Yang Wang
(Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

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