| Schedule | ||||||||||||
| AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium Series | ||||||||||||
| Machine Reading | ||||||||||||
| Monday, March 26 | Title / Speaker(s) & Affiliation(s) | |||||||||||
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Machine Reading and Open Information Extraction | |||||||||||
| Oren Etzioni, University of Washington, Chair | ||||||||||||
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Break | |||||||||||
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Textual entailment as a framework for applied semantic inference | |||||||||||
| Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University, PASCAL invited speaker | ||||||||||||
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch | |||||||||||
| 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Textual Entailment and Ontologies: | |||||||||||
| Robust Graph Alignment Methods for Textual Inference and Machine Reading | ||||||||||||
| Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Trond Grenager, Bill MacCartney, Daniel Cer, Daniel Ramage, Chlo Kiddon, Christopher D. Manning, Stanford University | ||||||||||||
| Machine Reading through Textual and Knowledge Entailment | ||||||||||||
| Andrew Hickl and Sanda Harabagiu, Language Computer Corporation | ||||||||||||
| Moving from Textual Relations to Ontologized Relations | ||||||||||||
| Stephen Soderland and Bhushan Mandhani, University of Washington | ||||||||||||
| Ontology Learning from Text Using Automatic Ontological-Semantic Text Annotation and the Web as the Corpus | ||||||||||||
| Jesse English and Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland, Baltimore County | ||||||||||||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Break | |||||||||||
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Entities and Relations: | |||||||||||
| Beginning to Understand Unstructured, Ungrammatical Text: An Information Integration Approach | ||||||||||||
| Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock, University of Southern California | ||||||||||||
| Building Knowledge Base for Reading from Encyclopedia | ||||||||||||
| Ka Kan Lo and Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
| COALA: A Tool for Inter-document Coreference Resolution Evaluation | ||||||||||||
| Bradley M. Andrews, University of California, Berkley, and | ||||||||||||
| James Fan, J. William Murdock, Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center | ||||||||||||
| Semantic Integration in Learning from Text | ||||||||||||
| Steven Bethard, Rodney Nielsen, James H. Martin, Wayne Ward, University of Colorado at Boulder | ||||||||||||
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Reception | |||||||||||
| Tuesday, March 27 | Title / Speaker(s) & Affiliation(s) | |||||||||||
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Project Möbius: Learning by Reading | |||||||||||
| Noah Friedland, The Friedland Group, Inc. | ||||||||||||
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Break | |||||||||||
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Building Models by Reading Texts | |||||||||||
| Ken Barker, University of Texas at Austin | ||||||||||||
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Bootstrap Learning Many Named Entity Extractors from the Web | |||||||||||
| Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University | ||||||||||||
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch | |||||||||||
| 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Break Out Discussion Groups | |||||||||||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Break | |||||||||||
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Simplified or Controlled Language: | |||||||||||
| Reading to Learn: An Investigation into Language Understanding | ||||||||||||
| Peter Clark, Phil Harrison, John Thompson, Rick Wojcik, Tom Jenkins, Boeing Phantom Works, and | ||||||||||||
| David Israel, SRI International | ||||||||||||
| Reporting On Some Logic-Based Machine Reading Research | ||||||||||||
| Selmer Bringsjord, Konstantine Arkoudas, Micah Clark, Andrew Shilliday, Joshua Taylor, Bettina Schimanski, Yingrui Yang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ||||||||||||
| Using Episodic Memory in a Memory Based Parser to Assist Machine Reading | ||||||||||||
| Kevin Livingston and Christopher K. Riesbeck, Northwestern University | ||||||||||||
| A Prototype System that Learns by Reading Simplified Texts | ||||||||||||
| Kenneth D. Forbus, Christopher Riesbeck, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kevin Livingston, Abhishek Sharma, Leo Ureel, Northwestern University | ||||||||||||
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Plenary Session | |||||||||||
| Wednesday, March 28 | Title / Speaker(s) & Affiliation(s) | |||||||||||
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Evaluation and Cognitive Science: | |||||||||||
| Answering and Questioning for Machine Reading | ||||||||||||
| Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research | ||||||||||||
| Machine Reading as a Cognitive Science Research Instrument | ||||||||||||
| Kenneth D. Forbus, Kate Lockwood, Emmett Tomai, Morteza Dehghani, Jakub Czyz, Northwestern University | ||||||||||||
| Deep Parsing and Semantic Extraction for Natural Language Search | ||||||||||||
| Gian Lorenzo Thione, Powerset | ||||||||||||
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Break | |||||||||||
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Directions and Future Work | |||||||||||