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Program
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Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use
November, 14 and 15, 2008
(Friday and Saturday)
Warren Weaver Hall, New York University
The printed version of notes will be distributed at the symposium.
Notes by the invited speakers and slides by the general session presenters will be available after the symposium.
- November 14, 2008 (Friday)
- Morning Session
| TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | NOTE |
| 9:00-10:00 | REGISTRATION |
| 10:00-10:20 | Satoshi Sekine(NYU),
Tanya Korelsky(NSF),
Ralph Grishman(NYU) | Opening Remarks | slide |
| 10:20-10:50 | Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley) | Tricks for Statistical Semantic Knowledge Discovery: A Selectionally Restricted Sample | slide |
| 10:50-11:20 | Dekang Lin (Google) | Unsupervised Acquisition of 'Deep' Knowledge from Shallow Corpus Statistics |
| 11:20-11:50 | Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan U.) | It's time for a semantic engine | slide |
| 11:50-12:00 | discussion |
- Afternoon Session (1) - general submission
| TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | NOTE |
| 13:30-13:48 | Dan Roth, Kevin Small (UIUC) | Interactive Introduction of Semantic Information for Discriminative Learning | note, slide |
| 13:48-14:06 | Nathanael Chambers, Dan Jurafsky (Stanford U.) | Enriching Narrative Event Chains | note, slide |
| 14:06-14:24 | Robert Krovetz (Lexical Research) | Word Sense Disambiguation, Lexical Semantics, and NLP Applications | note |
| 14:24-14:42 | Lenhart Schubert, Benjamin Van Durme (U. of Rochester) | Open Extraction of General Knowledge through Compositional Semantics | note, slide |
| 14:42-15:00 | Bonnie J. Dorr, Boyan A. Onyshkevych (U. of Maryland, HLT Center for Excellence) | From Linguistic Annotations to Knowledge Objects | note, slide |
| 15:00-15:18 | Nancy Ide (Vassar College), Rebecca Passonneau (Columbia U.), Collin Baker (UC Berkeley), Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton U.) | Semantics Isn't Easy: Thoughts on the Way Forward | note, slide |
| 15:18-15:30 | discussion |
- Afternoon Session (2)
| TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | NOTE |
| 16:00-16:30 | Oren Etzioni (U. of Washington) | We KnowItAll: Lessons from a Quater Century of Web Extraction Research | slide |
| 16:30-17:00 | Kentaro Inui (NAIST) | Common Semantic Resources for Textual Statement Extraction and Organization | slide |
| 17:00-17:30 | Peter Turney (NRC) | Vectors and Semantics | slide |
| 17:30-18:00 | Dan Moldvan (Lymba Corporation) | Tools and Resources that Build and Exploit Semantic Knowledge | slide |
| 18:00-18:10 | discussion |
- Banquet
| 19:00-21:00 | Banquet will be held at Apple Restaurant, a New York style Asian-American cuisine. It is located only 2 minute walk from the hall. Please pay $60 at the registration of the symposium, we will give you a ticket and a map to the restaurant. |
- November 15, 2008 (Saturday)
- Morning Session
| TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | NOTE |
| 9:00-9:30 | Patrick Pantel (Yahoo! Labs) | Of Search and Semantics | slide |
| 9:30-10:00 | Marius Pasca (Google) | Web Search as an Online Word Game for Knowledge Discovery |
| 10:00-10:30 | Bill Dolan (Microsoft Research) | Reasons to avoid reasoning: Where does NLP stop and AI begin? | slide |
| 10:30-10:40 | discussion |
- Demo/Poster Session (see the list below)
| TIME | DESCRIPTION |
| 11:00-12:00 | Each of the 39 Poster/Demo presenters will give 90 second introduction |
| 12:00-14:00 | Poster/Demo Session in room 109, 101, 102 and hallway
(Each presenter will receive one free box lunch :-) |
- Afternoon Session
| TIME | SPEAKER | TITLE | NOTE |
| 14:30-15:00 | Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton U.) | Identifying, Finding and Encoding Semantic Relations | slide |
| 15:00-15:30 | Bernardo Magnini (FBK-irst) | Semantic Knowledge for Textual Entailment | slide |
| 15:30-16:00 | Satoshi Sekine (NYU) | Community Efforts for Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use | slide |
| 16:00-17:00 | discussion | slide |
- List of Poster Presentation
| ID | PRESENTER | AFFILIATION | TITLE | NOTE |
| P-1 | Kai R. Larsen, Jintae Lee, Eliot Rich | U. Colorado | The Development of a Shared Dataset for Predictive Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences | note, slide |
| P-2 | Catherine Havasi | Brandeis University | Discovering Semantic Relations Using Singular Value Decomposition Based Techniques | note, slide |
| P-3 | Iryna Gurevych | Technical University of Darmstadt | Putting the Wisdom-of-Crowds to Use in NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources on the Web | note, slide |
| P-4 | Roy Bar-Haim and Ido Dagan | Bar-Ilan University | Efficient Semantic Inference over Language Expressions | note, slide |
| P-5 | Derrick Higgins | Educational Testing Service | Length-independent vector-space document similarity measures | note, slide |
| P-6 | Jung-Wei Fan, Carol Friedman | Columbia University | Semantic reclassification of ontology concepts using contextual and lexical features | slide |
| P-7 | Peter Clark and Phil Harrison | Boeing Phantom Works, | Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use: Some Ongoing Research at Boeing | note, slide |
| P-8 | Alexander Yates | Temple University | ShopSmart: Product Recommendations through Technical Specifications and User Reviews | note, slide |
| P-9 | Yutaka Matsuo, Danushka Bollegala, Hironori Tomobe, YingZi Jin, Junichiro Mori, Keigo Watanabe, Taiki Honma, Masahiro Hamasaki, Kotaro Nakayama, and Mizuki Oka | Tokyo University | Social Network Mining from the Web | slide |
| P-10 | Hiroyuki TODA, Norihito YASUDA, Yumiko MATSUURA, and Ryoji KATAOKA | NTT Cyber Solutions Laboratories, | Geographic Information Retrieval against Immediate Surroundings | note, slide |
| P-11 | Atsushi Fujita, Satoshi Sato | Nagoya University | Toward Automatic Compilation of Phrasal Thesaurus | note, slide |
| P-12 | Saif Mohammad and Bonnie Dorr, Graeme Hirst | University of Maryland, University of Toronto | Towards Antonymy-Aware Natural Language Applications | note, slide |
| P-13 | Fabio Massimo Zanzotto | University of Rome "Tor Vergata" | Combining Semi-Unsupervised Acquisition of Corpora and Supervised Learning of Textual Entailment Rules | note, slide |
| P-14 | Nitin Madnani, Philip Resnik, Bonnie Dorr & Richard Schwartz | University of Maryland | Applying Automatically Generated Semantic Knowledge A Case Study in Machine Translation | note, slide |
| P-15 | Justin Betteridge, Andrew Carlson, Sue Ann Hong, Estevam R. Hruschka Jr., Edith L. M. Law, Tom M. Mitchell, and Sophie H. Wang | CMU | Continuous Discovery of Semantic Knowledge | note, slide |
| P-16 | Karin Verspoor, William Baumgartner, Kevin Cohen, Helen Johnson, and Larry Hunter | University of Colorado Denver | The Colorado OpenDMAP system: Building on Community Ontologies and a Community, Platform for Biomedical Natural Language Processing | note, slide |
| P-17 | Noriko Tomuro and Steve Lytinen | DePaul University | Polysemy in Lexical Semantics -- Automatic Discovery of Polysemous Senses and Their Regularities | note |
| P-18 | Svetlana Stoyanchev and Amanda Stent | SUNY, Stony Brook | Automatic Feature Discovery for Predicting Content of User Utterances in Dialogs | note, slide |
| P-19 | Jordan Boyd-Graber and David M. Blei | Princeton University | Syntactic Topic Models | note, slide |
| P-20 | Breck Baldwin | Alias-i | Is Semantics Just Picking the Right Syntax for the Context from Multiple Possibilities? | note |
| P-21 | Cliff Joslyn, Michelle Gregory, Liam McGrath, Patrick Paulson, Karin Verspoor | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Colorado Denver | Semantic Hierarchies: Induction, Measurement, and Management | note, slide |
| P-23 | Eiman Tamah Al-Shammari | Kuwait University, George Mason University | Syntactical Knowledge Usage To Reduce Arabic/English Stemming Errors |
| P-24 | Kimiaki Shirahama, Akihito Mizui and Kuniaki Uehara | Kobe University | Characteristics of Textual Information in Video Data from the Perspective of Natural Language Processing | note, slide |
| P-25 | Kazuhiro Seki and Kuniaki Uehara | Kobe University | Biomedical Association Discovery via Complementary TDM | note, slide |
| P-28 | Marine Carpuat | Columbia University | Word Sense Disambiguation for Statistical Machine Translation | note, slide |
| P-29 | Rion Snow | Stanford University | Crowdsourcing Annotations for Natural Language Tasks: An Evaluation | note, slide |
| P-30 | Delip Rao | JHU | Bootstrapping Extraction Patterns from Wikipedia |
| P-31 | James Mayfield, Bonnie Dorr, Tim Finin, Douglas Oard and Christine Piatko | Human Language Technology Center of Excellence | Knowledge Base Evaluation for Semantic Knowledge Discovery | note, slide |
- List of Demo Presentation
| ID | PRESENTER | AFFILIATION | TITLE | NOTE |
| D-1 | Daniel Tunkelang | Endeca | Unsupervised Annotation and Exploratory Search | note, slide |
| D-3 | David Nadeau | Openplaces | Demo of Semi-Supervised Named Entity Recognition at OpenPlaces | slide |
| D-4 | Gregory Marton | MIT | Procedure Discovery for Time Expression Understanding | slide |
| D-5 | Mona Diab | Columbia University | SALAMAT: Sense Assignment Leveraging Alignments, Monolingual And Translation |
| D-6 | Michael Paul and Roxana Girju | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | AIRTA: An Automatic Inter-disciplinary Research Topic Advisor - Where are We and Where do We Go - | note, slide |
| D-7 | Emily Jamison | The Ohio State University, | CACTUS: A User-friendly Toolkit for Semantic Categorization and Clustering in the Open Domain | note, slide |
| D-8 | Toru Hirano, Yoshihiro Matsuo, and Genichiro Kikui | NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, | Aggregating Knowledge of Named Entity Relations | note, slide |
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