KINDLE Project Meeting @ UIUC

Knowledge and INference via Description Logics for natural languagE

September 10, 2004. 8:00am-4:00pm

3403 Siebel Center for Computer Science
201 N.Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

8:00 - 8:20

Welcome and Breakfast

8:20 - 10:00

Research on Learning, NLP and Intelligent Information Access in the Cognitive Computation Group
8:20 - 8:50

An Introduction [ppt]
Dan Roth

8:50 - 10:00

Student's Presentation

Theory:

Multi-class Classification (10 mins) [ppt]
Dav Zimak

Ranking (10 mins) [ppt]
Shivani Argawal

Information Access:

Learning Entities and Relations (10 mins) [ppt]
Wen-tau Yih

Interactive learning of Entities Demonstration (5 mins) [link]
Jakob Metzler

Robust Reading: Identification and Tracing of Entities + Demonstration (15 mins) [ppt] [link]
Xin Li, Paul Morie

NLP:

Semantic Role Labeling + Demonstration (20 mins) [ppt] [link]
Wen-tau Yih
10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break + Informal Discussion
10:30 - 12:00

KINDLE, Introduction and Overview
10:30 - 11:10 Dan Roth [ppt]
11:10 - 11:50 Martha Palmer [ppt]
11:50 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:00

Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:30

KINDLE: Detailed Presentations

A Q/A Database and Extended KINDLE Resources (20 mins) [ppt]
Edward Loper

Types of Representation for Text Entailment (15 mins) [ppt]
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz

Concept Graph Demonstration (5 mins)
Mark Sammons

Knowledge Resources and Inference Rules for KINDLE (15 mins) [ppt]
Roxana Girju

Learning and Inference for Extended Subsumption (15 mins) [ppt]
Vasin Punyakanok

Integration & discussion (20 mins)
Martha Palmer and Dan Roth
2:30 - 3:15

Coffee Break, along with:

An informal introduction to Data Base, Information Integration and Retrieval and Data Mining Research at CS@UIUC

Kevin Chang (10 mins) [ppt]
AnHai Doan (10 mins) [ppt]
Jiawei Han (10 mins) [ppt]
ChengXiang Zhai (10 mins) [ppt]
3:15 - 4:00

Summary, discussion, and future plans
4:00

Adjourn