OVERVIEW PAPERS:

Overview of the 2020 Epidemic Question Answering Track
Travis R. Goodwin, Dina Demner-Fushman, Kyle Lo, Lucy Lu Wang, William Hersh, Hoa T. Dang, Ian M. Soboroff
(U.S. National Library of Medicine; Allen Institute for AI; Oregon Health & Science University; National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Overview of the TAC-KBP2020 Recognizing Ultra Fine-grained EntitieS (RUFES) Task
Heng Ji, Avirup Sil, Shudong Huang, Hoa Trang Dang, Ian Soboroff
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; IBM Research; U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology)

PARTICIPANT PAPERS (ordered by Team ID):

BBN_TA1: SM-KBP (Task 1)
Updates and Analysis of BBN Panorama for SM-KBP
Roger Bock, Jordan Hashemi, Ilana Heintz, Ben Rozonoyer
(Raytheon BBN Technologies)

GAIA: SM-KBP (Task 1), SM-KBP (Task 2), SM-KBP (Task 3)
GAIA at SM-KBP 2020 - A Dockerized Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction, Clustering, Temporal Tracking and Hypothesis Generation System
Manling Li, Ying Lin, Tuan Manh Lai, Xiaoman Pan, Haoyang Wen, Sha Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Pengfei Yu, Lifu Huang, Di Lu, Qingyun Wang, Haoran Zhang, Qi Zeng, Chi Han, Zixuan Zhang, Yujia Qin, Xiaodan Hu, Nikolaus Parulian, Daniel Campos, Heng Ji, Brian Chen, Xudong Lin, Alireza Zareian, Amith Ananthram, Emily Allaway, Shih-Fu Chang, Kathleen McKeown, Yixiang Yao, Michael Spector, Mitchell DeHaven, Daniel Napierski, Marjorie Freedman, Pedro Szekely, Haidong Zhu, Ram Nevatia, Yang Bai, Yifan Wang, Ali Sadeghian, Haodi Ma, Daisy Zhe Wang
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Columbia University; Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California; University of Southern California; University of Florida)

h2oloo: EPIC-QA (Primary Task A), EPIC-QA (Primary Task B)
H2oloo at TAC 2020: Epidemic Question Answering
Justin Borromeo, Ronak Pradeep, Jimmy Lin
(University of Waterloo)

HLTRI: EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task A), EPIC-QA (Primary Task A), EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task B), EPIC-QA (Primary Task B)
The University of Texas at Dallas HLTRI's Participation in EPIC-QA: Searching for Entailed Questions Revealing Novel Answer Nuggets
Maxwell Weinzierl, Sanda M. Harabagiu
(The University of Texas at Dallas)

IBM: EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task A), EPIC-QA (Primary Task A), EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task B), EPIC-QA (Primary Task B)
IBM Submissions to EPIC-QA: Open Retrieval Question Answering on COVID-19
Bhavani Iyer, Vikas Yadav, Martin Franz, Revanth Gangi Reddy, Md Arafat Sultan, Salim Roukos, Vittorio Castelli, Radu Florian, Avirup Sil
(IBM Research AI)

ibm_mnlp_ie: RUFES
IBM Research AI Systems for TAC2020 KBP: RUFES Track
Parul Awasthy, Ken Barker, Jian Ni, Taesun Moon, Radu Florian
(IBM Research AI)

L3i: RUFES
Transformer-based Methods for Recognizing Ultra Fine-grained Entities (RUFES)
Emanuela Boros, Antoine Doucet
(University of La Rochelle)

OPERA: SM-KBP (Task 1), SM-KBP (Task 2), SM-KBP (Task 3)
(Carnegie Mellon University; USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI))

RelMatter: RUFES
RelMatter's System for TAC-KBP 2020: Recognizing Ultra Fine-grained Entities
Jianling Li, Pancheng Wang, Kunyuan Pang, Wuhang Lin, Shasha Li, Jintao Tang, Ting Wang
(National University of Defense Technology)

sinai: RUFES
Retrieval based approach over embeddings of Open Data samples for TAC RUFES 2020
Jaime Collado-Montanez, Arturo Montejo-Raez, Miguel A. Garcia-Cumbreras
(Universidad de Jaén)

UIUC2020: RUFES
UIUC TAC 2020 RUFES System Description
Revanth Gangi Reddy, Manling Li, Haoyang Wen, Heng Ji
(University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

UPC_USMBA: EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task A), EPIC-QA (Primary Task A), EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task B), EPIC-QA (Primary Task B)
(Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; University Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah)

vigicovid: EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task A), EPIC-QA (Primary Task A)
Vigicovid Question Answering system at EPIC-QA
Arantxa Otegi, Iñaki San Vicente, Borja Lozano, Xabier Saralegi, Jon Ander Campos, Anselmo Peñas, Eneko Agirre
(UNED; UPV/EHU; Elhuyar)

Yastil_R: EPIC-QA (Primary Task A)
Improving the Performance of Pre-trained Systems in Context Constrained Environments
Yastil Rughbeer, Anban Pillay, Edgar Jembere
(University of KwaZulu-Natal; Centre for AI Research, South Africa)

CONTRIBUTING PARTICIPANTS (Not officially evaluated in open TAC 2020 tasks):

CORONAWHY: EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task B)
Artur Kiulian, Janosch Ortmann
(CoronaWhy)

covidbert: EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task A), EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task B)
Shuo Sun
(Johns Hopkins University; New York University; Korea University)

Dindadiel: EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task A)
Irene Fernandez

ixa: EPIC-QA (Preliminary Task A)
Arantxa Otegi
(Ixa NLP Group at University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU))

ramfis: SM-KBP (Task 2)
Cecilia Maucer, Martha Palmer
(University of Colorado)

SAMSON: SM-KBP (Task 2), SM-KBP (Task 3)
Carl Anderson
(Raytheon BBN)

UTexas: SM-KBP (Task 3)
Katrin Erk
(University of Texas at Austin)

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