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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Thursday, June 28, 2007 | |
| 2:00–2:05 | Introduction |
| RTE SESSION | |
| 2:05–2:30 | The Third PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge Danilo Giampiccolo, Bernardo Magnini, Ido Dagan and Bill Dolan |
| Linguistic-Semantic Systems | |
| 2:30–2:55 | A Semantic Approach To Textual Entailment: System Evaluation and Task Analysis Aljoscha Burchardt, Nils Reiter, Stefan Thater and Anette Frank |
| 2:55–3:20 | Precision-focused Textual Inference Daniel Bobrow, Dick Crouch, Tracy Halloway King, Cleo Condoravdi, Lauri Karttunen, Rowan Nairn, Valeria de Paiva and Annie Zaenen |
| 3:20–3:45 | COGEX at RTE 3 Marta Tatu and Dan Moldovan |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| GENERAL SESSION–Resources for Entailment | |
| 4:15–4:40 | A Corpus of Fine-Grained Entailment Relations Rodney D. Nielsen and Wayne Ward |
| 4:40–5:10 | RTE Poster Booster (2 min presentation each) |
| 5:10–6:15 | RTE Poster Session |
| Recognizing Textual Entailment Using Sentence Similarity based on Dependency Tree Skeletons Rui Wang and Günter Neumann | |
| Learning Textual Entailment using SVMs and String Similarity Measures Prodromos Malakasiotis and Ion Androutsopoulos | |
| Entailment and Anaphora Resolution in RTE3 Rodolfo Delmonte, Antonella Bristot, Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti and Sara Tonelli | |
| On the Role of Lexical and World Knowledge in RTE3 Peter Clark, Phil Harrison, John Thompson, William Murray, Jerry Hobbs and Christiane Fellbaum | |
| Machine Learning with Semantic-Based Distances Between Sentences for Textual Entailment Daniel Ferrés and Horacio Rodríguez | |
| A Perspective-Based Approach for Solving Textual Entailment Recognition Óscar Ferrández, Daniel Micol, Rafael Muñoz and Manuel Palomar | |
| Shallow Semantic in Fast Textual Entailment Rule Learners Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Marco Pennacchiotti and Alessandro Moschitti | |
| Combining Lexical-Syntactic Information with Machine Learning for Recognizing Textual Entailment Arturo Montejo-Ráez, Jose Manuel Perea, Fernando Martínez-Santiago, Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, Maite Martín Valdivia and Alfonso Ureña-López | |
| Dependency-based paraphrasing for recognizing textual entailment Erwin Marsi, Emiel Krahmer and Wauter Bosma | |
| Experiments of UNED at the Third Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Jesús Herrera and Felisa Verdejo | |
| Textual Entailment Using Univariate Density Model and Maximizing Discriminant Function Scott Settembre | |
| The Role of Sentence Structure in Recognizing Textual Entailment Catherine Blake | |
| Semantic and Logical Inference Model for Textual Entailment Dan Roth and Mark Sammons | |
| SVO triple based Latent Semantic Analysis for recognising textual entailment Gaston Burek, Christian Pietsch and Anne De Roeck | |
| Textual Entailment Through Extended Lexical Overlap and Lexico-Semantic Matching Rod Adams, Gabriel Nicolae, Cristina Nicolae and Sanda Harabagiu | |
Friday, June 29, 2007 | |
| RTE–Transfromation-based systems | |
| 9:00–9:25 | Hypothesis Transformation and Semantic Variability Rules Used in Recognizing Textual Entailment Adrian Iftene and Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu |
| 9:25–9:50 | Semantic Inference at the Lexical-Syntactic Level for Textual Entailment Recognition Roy Bar-Haim, Ido Dagan, Iddo Greental, Idan Szpektor and Moshe Friedman |
| 9:50–10:15 | An Extensible Probabilistic Transformation-based Approach to the Third Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge Stefan Harmeling |
| 10:15–10:45 | Hoa Trang Dang, Ellen Voorhees, Christopher Manning, Dan Moldovan: Pilot Task Overview |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| GENERAL SESSION–Paraphrase Generation | |
| 11:15–11:40 | Mutaphrase: Paraphrasing with FrameNet Michael Ellsworth and Adam Janin |
| 11:40–12:05 | A Compositional Approach toward Dynamic Phrasal Thesaurus Atsushi Fujita, Shuhei Kato, Naoki Kato and Satoshi Sato |
| 12:05–1:00 | Invited Talk–Oren Etzioni: Machine Reading and Open Information Extraction |
| LUNCH BREAK | |
| RTE-Other Approaches | |
| 2:30–2:55 | Machine Learning Based Semantic Inference: Experiments and Observations at RTE-3 Baoli Li, Joseph Irwin, Ernest V. Garcia and Ashwin Ram |
| 2:55–3:20 | Learning Alignments and Leveraging Natural Logic Nathanael Chambers, Daniel Cer, Trond Grenager, David Hall, Chloe Kiddon, Bill MacCartney, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Daniel Ramage, Eric Yeh and Christopher D. Manning |
| 3:20-3:45 | A Discourse Commitment-Based Framework for Recognizing Textual Entailment Andrew Hickl and Jeremy Bensley |
| COFFEE BREAK | |
| GENERAL SESSION–Entailment and Paraphrase Acquisition | |
| 4:15–4:40 | Biology Based Alignments of Paraphrases for Sentence Compression João Cordeiro, Gaël Dias and Guillaume Cleuziou |
| 4:40–5:05 | A first order semantic approach to adjectival inference Marilisa Amoia and Claire Gardent |
| 5:05–5:30 | Natural Logic for Textual Inference Bill MacCartney and Christopher D. Manning |
| 5:30–6:15 | Open discussion–what next? |