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Programme
Monday 22nd
9:00 - 12:00 REGISTRATION
10:00 Welcome & Greetings
First Session - 10:15-12:45
WEB, WSD & KNOWLEDGE
Montse Cuadros and German Rigau. KnowNet: A proposal for building
highly connected and dense knowledge bases from the web.
Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops and Giovanni
Semeraro. Combining Knowledge-based Methods and Supervised Learning.
Benjamin Van Durme and Lenhart Schubert. Open Knowledge Extraction
through Compositional Language Processing.
Peter Clark, Christiane Fellbaum, Jerry Hobbs, Phil Harrison, William
Murray and John Thompson. Augmenting WordNet for Deep Understanding
of Text.
Rob Koeling and Diana McCarthy. From Predicting Predominant Senses to
Using Local Context for Word Sense Disambiguation.
Lunch - 12:45-14:00
Second Session - 14:00-15:30
LINGUISTIC & TEXT PROCESSING
Emily M. Bender and David Goss-Grubbs. Semantic Representations of
Syntactically Marked Discourse Status in Crosslinguistic Perspective.
Lionel Fontan and Saint-Dizier Patrick. Analyzing the explanation
structure of procedural texts: dealing with Advice and Warnings.
Manfred Stede. Connective-based local coherence analysis: Recognizing
causal relationships.
POSTER SESSION - 15:30-16:30
2 minutes x poster for Flash presentation = 10 minutes
Nils Reiter, Matthias Hartung and Anette Frank. A Resource-Poor Approach for Linking Ontology Classes to Wikipedia Articles.
Doina Tatar, Andreea Mihis and Gabriela Serban. Top-down Cohesion
Segmentation in Summarization.
Delphine Battistelli, Javier Couto, Jean-Luc Minel and Sylviane
Schwer. Representing and visualizing calendar expressions in texts.
Udo Kruschwitz, Jon Chamberlain and Massimo Poesio. Addressing the
Resource Bottleneck to Create Large-Scale Annotated Texts.
Rodrigo Agerri, John Barnden, Mark Lee and Alan Wallington. Textual
Entailment as an Evaluation Framework for Metaphor Resolution.
Coffee Break - 16:00-16:30
Third Session - 16:30-19:00
SHARED TASK : SYSTEM PRESENTATIONS
Johan Bos: INTRODUCTION
Peter Clark, Phil Harrison, William Murray and John Thompson.
Boeing's NLP
System, and the Challenges of Semantic
Representations.
Johan Bos. Wide-Coverage Semantic Analysis with Boxer
Rodolfo Delmonte. Semantic and Pragmatic
Computing with GETARUNS.
Antonio Branco and Francisco Costa. LXGram in the Shared Task
"Comparing Semantic Representations" of STEP2008.
Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. Baseline Evaluation of WSD and Semantic Dependency in OntoSem.
Charles Callaway. The TextCap Semantic Interpreter.
James Allen. Deep Semantic Analysis of Text.
21:00 - Baroque Music Concert
Tuesday 23rd
9:00-12:00 REGISTRATION
9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker - Harry Bunt
A New Life for Semantic Annotations?
Coffee Break - 10:00-10:30
First Session - 10:30-12:30
LEXICAL SEMANTIC APPROACHES
Maria Liakata and Stephen Pulman. Automatic fine grained semantic
classification of domain adaptation.
Irene Cramer. How Well Do Semantic Relatedness Measures Perform: A
Meta-Study.
Evguenia Malaia, John Borneman and Ronnie Wilbur. Analysis of ASL
motion capture data towards identification of verb type.
Diego De Cao, Danilo Croce, Marco Pennacchiotti and Roberto Basili. Combining word sense
and usage for modeling frame semantics.
Lunch - 12:30-14:00
Second Session - 14:00-16:00
LEXICAL, LINGUISTIC & TEXT SEMANTICS
Allan Ramsay and Debora Georgia Field. Everyday language is highly
intensional.
Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg. The Idiom-Reference Connection.
Antonio Branco and Francisco Costa. High Precision Analysis of NPs
with a Deep Processing Grammar.
Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Jerry Hobbs. Refining the Meaning of Sense
Labels in PDTB: Concession.
Coffee Break - 16:00-16:30
Third Session - 16:30-19:00
SHARED TASK : COMPARISONS OF EACH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
Peter Clark, Phil Harrison, William Murray and John Thompson.
Johan Bos.
Rodolfo Delmonte.
Antonio Branco and Francisco Costa.
Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale.
Charles Callaway.
James Allen.
21.00 - Banquet
Wednesday 24th
9:00-10:00 Invited Speaker - Sanda Harabagiu
Semantic Processing in Textual Question Answering.
Coffee Break - 10:00-10:30
Last Session 1 - 10:30-11:30
Rodolfo Delmonte and Emanuele Pianta. Answering WHY-questions in
Closed Domains from a Discourse Model.
Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. Resolving
Paraphrases to Support Modeling Language Perception in an Intelligent
Agent.
Last Session 2 - 11:30-12:30
SHARED TASK : DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION OF NEW TASK
Closing Remarks - 12:30-13:00
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