ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing
- More information at WS9 workshop page. (try the local copy if the link doesn't work)
- For whole workshops program see the Workshop Program page.
Thursday, June 28, afternoon
| Hall III | |
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| 14:00–14:05 | Introduction |
| RTE SESSION | |
| 14:05–14:30 | The Third PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge Danilo Giampiccolo, Bernardo Magnini, Ido Dagan and Bill Dolan |
| Linguistic-Semantic Systems | |
| 14:30–14:55 | A Semantic Approach To Textual Entailment: System Evaluation and Task Analysis Aljoscha Burchardt, Nils Reiter, Stefan Thater and Anette Frank |
| 14:55–15:20 | Precision-focused Textual Inference Daniel Bobrow, Dick Crouch, Tracy Halloway King, Cleo Condoravdi, Lauri Karttunen, Rowan Nairn, Valeria de Paiva and Annie Zaenen |
| 15:20–15:45 | COGEX at RTE 3 Marta Tatu and Dan Moldovan |
| 15:45–16:15 | Coffee Break |
| GENERAL SESSION–Resources for Entailment | |
| 16:15–16:40 | A Corpus of Fine-Grained Entailment Relations Rodney D. Nielsen and Wayne Ward |
| 16:40–17:10 | RTE Poster Booster (2 min presentation each) |
| RTE Poster Session | |
| 17:10–18:15 | 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 |
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| Entailment and Anaphora Resolution in RTE3 Rodolfo Delmonte, Antonella Bristot, Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti and Sara Tonelli |
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| On the Role of Lexical and World Knowledge in RTE3 Peter Clark, Phil Harrison, John Thompson, William Murray, Jerry Hobbs and Christiane Fellbaum |
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| Machine Learning with Semantic-Based Distances Between Sentences for Textual Entailment Daniel Ferrés and Horacio Rodríguez |
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| A Perspective-Based Approach for Solving Textual Entailment Recognition Óscar Ferrández, Daniel Micol, Rafael Muñoz and Manuel Palomar |
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| Shallow Semantic in Fast Textual Entailment Rule Learners Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Marco Pennacchiotti and Alessandro Moschitti |
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| 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 |
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| Dependency-based paraphrasing for recognizing textual entailment Erwin Marsi, Emiel Krahmer and Wauter Bosma |
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| Experiments of UNED at the Third Recognising Textual Entailment Challenge Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Jesús Herrera and Felisa Verdejo |
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| Textual Entailment Using Univariate Density Model and Maximizing Discriminant Function Scott Settembre |
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| The Role of Sentence Structure in Recognizing Textual Entailment Catherine Blake |
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| Semantic and Logical Inference Model for Textual Entailment Dan Roth and Mark Sammons |
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| SVO triple based Latent Semantic Analysis for recognising textual entailment Gaston Burek, Christian Pietsch and Anne De Roeck |
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| Textual Entailment Through Extended Lexical Overlap and Lexico-Semantic Matching Rod Adams, Gabriel Nicolae, Cristina Nicolae and Sanda Harabagiu |
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| 19:00 | Dinner at the Hotel restaurant All the participants are invited |
Friday, June 29, whole day
| Hall III | |
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| 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 |
| 10:45–11:15 | 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 |
| 12:05–13:00 | Invited Talk–Oren Etzioni: Machine Reading and Open Information Extraction |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch |
| RTE-Other Approaches | |
| 14:30–14:55 | Machine Learning Based Semantic Inference: Experiments and Observations at RTE-3 Baoli Li, Joseph Irwin, Ernest V. Garcia and Ashwin Ram |
| 14:55–15:20 | 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 |
| 15:20-15:45 | A Discourse Commitment-Based Framework for Recognizing Textual Entailment Andrew Hickl and Jeremy Bensley |
| 15:45–16:15 | Coffee Break |
| GENERAL SESSION–Entailment and Paraphrase Acquisition | |
| 16:15–16:40 | Biology Based Alignments of Paraphrases for Sentence Compression João Cordeiro, Gaël Dias and Guillaume Cleuziou |
| 16:40–17:05 | A first order semantic approach to adjectival inference Marilisa Amoia and Claire Gardent |
| 17:05–17:30 | Natural Logic for Textual Inference Bill MacCartney and Christopher D. Manning |
| 17:30–18:15 | Open discussion–what next? |
