Program
Thursday, August 6, 2009 | |
| 8:45–9:00 | Opening Remarks |
| Session 1: Foundational Aspects and Linguistic Analysis of Textual Entailment | |
| 9:00–9:30 | Multi-word expressions in textual inference: Much ado about nothing? Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Sebastian Pado and Christopher D. Manning |
| 9:30–10:00 | A Proposal on Evaluation Measures for RTE Richard Bergmair |
| 10:00–10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30–11:00 | Sub-sentencial Paraphrasing by Contextual Pivot Translation Aurélien Max |
| 11:00–12:00 | Panel: Perspectives on the emerging field of textual inference |
| Iryna Gurevych (University of Darmstadt) Collective Intelligence for Applied Semantics - a Quantum Leap or a Rubbish-Heap | |
| Diana McCarthy (University of Sussex) Textual Entailment: a view from the Senseval/Semeval side of the fence | |
| 12:00–13.50 | Lunch (offered by the Pascal Network) |
| Session 2: Learning Textual Entailment Rules and Building Corpora | |
| 13:50–14:20 | Augmenting WordNet-based Inference with Argument Mapping Idan Szpektor and Ido Dagan |
| 14:20–14:50 | Optimizing Textual Entailment Recognition Using Particle Swarm Optimization Yashar Mehdad and Bernardo Magnini |
| 14:50–15:10 | Ranking Paraphrases in Context Stefan Thater, Georgiana Dinu and Manfred Pinkal |
| 15:10–15:30 | Building an Annotated Textual Inference Corpus for Motion and Space Kirk Roberts |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 3: Machine Learning Models and Application of Textual Inference | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Using Hypernymy Acquisition to Tackle (Part of) Textual Entailment Elena Akhmatova and Mark Dras |
| 16:30–17:00 | Automating Model Building in c-rater Jana Sukkarieh and Svetlana Stoyanchev |
| 17:00–17:20 | Presupposed Content and Entailments in Natural Language Inference David Clausen and Christopher D. Manning |
| 17:20–18:00 | Final Panel and Discussion |