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Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Thursday, June 30, 2005

9:00–9:15Opening Remarks by Bill Dolan and Ido Dagan
9:15–9:40Classification of Semantic Relations by Humans and Machines
Erwin Marsi and Emiel Krahmer
9:40–10:05The Distributional Similarity of Sub-Parses
Julie Weeds, David Weir and Bill Keller
10:05–10:30Measuring the Semantic Similarity of Texts
Courtney Corley and Rada Mihalcea
10:30–11:00Break
11:00–11:25Training Data Modification for SMT Considering Groups of Synonymous Sentences
Hideki Kashioka
11:25–12:25Invited Talk by Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:25–2:00Lunch
2:00–2:25Recognizing Paraphrases and Textual Entailment Using Inversion Transduction Grammars
Dekai Wu
2:25–2:50Local Textual Inference: Can it be Defined or Circumscribed?
Annie Zaenen, Lauri Karttunen and Richard Crouch
2:50–3:15Discovering Entailment Relations Using “Textual Entailment Patterns”
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Maria Teresa Pazienza and Marco Pennacchiotti
3:15–3:40A Probabilistic Setting and Lexical Coocurrence Model for Textual Entailment
Oren Glickman and Ido Dagan
3:40–4:00Break
4:00–4:25Generating an Entailment Corpus from News Headlines
John Burger and Lisa Ferro
4:25–4:50Definition and Analysis of Intermediate Entailment Levels
Roy Bar-Haim, Idan Szpecktor and Oren Glickman
4:50–5:40Panel Discussion