WORKSHOP PROGRAM
| Day 1: Saturday, June 23, 2007 | Day 2: Sunday, June 24, 2007 |
Saturday, June 23, 2007 | |
| 9:00–9:15 | Welcome |
| 9:15–9:30 | SemEval-2007
Task 01: Evaluating WSD on Cross-Language Information
Retrieval Eneko Agirre, Bernardo Magnini, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Arantxa Otegi, German Rigau and Piek Vossen |
| 9:30–9:45 | SemEval-2007
Task 02: Evaluating Word Sense Induction and Discrimination
Systems Eneko Agirre and Aitor Soroa |
| 9:45–10:00 | SemEval-2007
Task 04: Classification of Semantic Relations between
Nominals Roxana Girju, Preslav Nakov, Vivi Nastase, Stan Szpakowicz, Peter Turney and Deniz Yuret |
| 10:00–10:15 | UIUC: A
Knowledge-rich Approach to Identifying Semantic Relations between
Nominals Brandon Beamer, Suma Bhat, Brant Chee, Andrew Fister, Alla Rozovskaya and Roxana Girju |
| 10:15–10:30 | FBK-IRST:
Kernel Methods for Semantic Relation Extraction Claudio Giuliano, Alberto Lavelli, Daniele Pighin and Lorenza Romano |
| 10:30–10:45 | SemEval-2007 Task 07: Coarse-Grained English All-Words
Task Roberto Navigli, Kenneth C. Litkowski and Orin Hargraves |
| 10:45–11:15 | coffee break |
| 11:15–11:30 | SemEval-2007 Task 08: Metonymy Resolution at
SemEval-2007 Katja Markert and Malvina Nissim |
| 11:30–12:30 | Invited Talk by Eduard Hovy: The OntoNotes project |
| 12:30–14:30 | lunch |
| Poster session 1 | |
| 14:30–15:45 | Peng Jin, Yunfang Wu and Shiwen Yu |
| SemEval-2007 Task 06:
Word-Sense Disambiguation of Prepositions Kenneth C. Litkowski and Orin Hargraves | |
| CMU-AT: Semantic
Distance and Background Knowledge for Identifying Semantic
Relations Alicia Tribble and Scott E. Fahlman | |
| FUH
(FernUniversität in Hagen): Metonymy Recognition Using Different
Kinds of Context for a Memory-Based Learner Johannes Leveling | |
| GPLSI: Word
Coarse-grained Disambiguation aided by Basic Level
Concepts Rubén Izquierdo, Armando Suárez and German Rigau | |
| GYDER: Maxent Metonymy
Resolution Richárd Farkas, Eszter Simon, György Szarvas and Dániel Varga | |
| HIT-WSD: Using Search
Engine for Multilingual Chinese-English Lexical Sample
Task PengYuan Liu, TieJun Zhao and MuYun Yang | |
| ILK: Machine learning
of semantic relations with shallow features and almost no
data Iris Hendrickx, Roser Morante, Caroline Sporleder and Antal van den Bosch | |
| ILK2: Semantic Role
Labeling of Catalan and Spanish using TiMBL Roser Morante and Bertjan Busser (Moved from Poster session 2) | |
| IRST-BP: Preposition
Disambiguation based on Chain Clarifying Relationships
Contexts Octavian Popescu, Sara Tonelli and Emanuele Pianta | |
| LCC-SRN: LCC’s
SRN System for SemEval 2007 Task 4 Adriana Badulescu and Munirathnam Srikanth | |
| LCC-WSD: System
Description for English Coarse Grained All Words Task at SemEval
2007 Adrian Novischi, Muirathnam Srikanth and Andrew Bennett | |
| MELB-KB: Nominal
Classification as Noun Compound Interpretation Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin | |
| MELB-YB: Preposition
Sense Disambiguation Using Rich Semantic Features Patrick Ye and Timothy Baldwin | |
| SRCB-WSD: Supervised
Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation with Key Features Yun Xing | |
| Sussx: WSD using
Automatically Acquired Predominant Senses Rob Koeling and Diana McCarthy | |
| UCB: System
Description for SemEval Task #4 Preslav Nakov and Marti Hearst | |
| UCD-FC: Deducing
semantic relations using WordNet senses that occur frequently in a
database of noun-noun compounds Fintan J. Costello | |
| UCD-PN: Classification
of Semantic Relations Between Nominals using WordNet and Web
Counts Paul Nulty | |
| UCD-S1: A hybrid model
for detecting semantic relations between noun pairs in
text Cristina Butnariu and Tony Veale | |
| UCM3: Classification
of Semantic Relations between Nominals using Sequential Minimal
Optimization Isabel Segura Bedmar, Doaa Samy and Jose L. Martinez | |
| UMND2 : SenseClusters
Applied to the Sense Induction Task of Senseval-4 Ted Pedersen | |
| UNIBA: JIGSAW
algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis, Anna Lisa Gentile, Pasquale Lops and Giovanni Semeraro | |
| UOY: A Hypergraph
Model For Word Sense Induction & Disambiguation Ioannis Klapaftis and Suresh Manandhar | |
| UP13: Knowledge-poor
Methods (Sometimes) Perform Poorly Thierry Poibeau | |
| UPV-SI: Word Sense
Induction using Self Term Expansion David Pinto, Paolo Rosso and Héctor Jiménez-Salazar | |
| UTD-HLT-CG: Semantic
Architecture for Metonymy Resolution and Classification of Nominal
Relations Cristina Nicolae, Gabriel Nicolae and Sanda Harabagiu | |
| UTH: SVM-based
Semantic Relation Classification using Physical Sizes Eiji Aramaki, Takeshi Imai, Kengo Miyo and Kazuhiko Ohe | |
| UVAVU: WordNet
Similarity and Lexical Patterns for Semantic Relation
Classification Willem Robert van Hage and Sophia Katrenko | |
| UofL: Word Sense
Disambiguation Using Lexical Cohesion Yllias Chali and Shafiq R. Joty | |
| XRCE-M: A Hybrid
System for Named Entity Metonymy Resolution Brun Caroline, Ehrmann Maud and Jacquet Guillaume | |
| 15:45–16:15 | coffee break |
| 16:15–16:30 | SemEval-2007 Task 10: English Lexical Substitution
Task Diana McCarthy and Roberto Navigli |
| 16:30–16:45 | SemEval-2007 Task 11: English Lexical Sample Task via
English-Chinese Parallel Text Hwee Tou Ng and Yee Seng Chan |
| 16:45–17:00 | The
SemEval-2007 WePS Evaluation: Establishing a benchmark for the Web
People Search Task Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo and Satoshi Sekine |
| 17:00–17:15 | PSNUS: Web
People Name Disambiguation by Simple Clustering with Rich
Features Ergin Elmacioglu, Yee Fan Tan, Su Yan, Min-Yen Kan and Dongwon Lee |
| 17:15–18:15 | Panel: Inference with semantics: tasks and applications |
Sunday, June 24, 2007 | |
| 8:45–9:00 | SemEval-2007
Task 14: Affective Text Carlo Strapparava and Rada Mihalcea |
| 9:00–9:15 | CLaC and
CLaC-NB: Knowledge-based and corpus-based approaches to sentiment
tagging Alina Andreevskaia and Sabine Bergler |
| 9:15–9:30 | SemEval-2007
Task 15: TempEval Temporal Relation Identification Marc Verhagen, Robert Gaizauskas, Frank Schilder, Mark Hepple, Graham Katz and James Pustejovsky |
| 9:30–9:45 | WVALI:
Temporal Relation Identification by Syntactico-Semantic
Analysis Georgiana Puscasu |
| 9:45–10:00 | SemEval-2007
Task-17: English Lexical Sample, SRL and All Words Sameer Pradhan, Edward Loper, Dmitriy Dligach and Martha Palmer |
| 10:00–10:15 | I2R: Three
Systems for Word Sense Discrimination, Chinese Word Sense
Disambiguation, and English Word Sense Disambiguation Zheng-Yu Niu, Dong-Hong Ji and Chew-Lim Tan |
| 10:15–10:30 | NUS-PT:
Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation in the English
All-Words Tasks Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng and Zhi Zhong |
| 10:30–10:45 | UNT:
SubFinder: Combining Knowledge Sources for Automatic Lexical
Substitution Samer Hassan, Andras Csomai, Carmen Banea, Ravi Sinha and Rada Mihalcea |
| 10:45–11:15 | coffee break |
| Poster session 2 | |
| 11:15–12:30 | SemEval-2007 Task 05: Multilingual Chinese-English
Lexical Sample Peng Jin, Yunfang Wu and Shiwen Yu (Moved from Poster session 1) |
| SemEval-2007 Task 09:
Multilevel Semantic Annotation of Catalan and Spanish Lluís Màrquez, Lluis Villarejo, M. A. Martí and Mariona Taulé | |
Zeynep Orhan, Emine Çelik and Demirgüç Neslihan | |
| SemEval-2007 Task 16:
Evaluation of Wide Coverage Knowledge Resources Montse Cuadros and German Rigau | |
| SemEval-2007 Task 18:
Arabic Semantic Labeling Mona Diab, Musa Alkhalifa, Sabry ElKateb, Christiane Fellbaum, Aous Mansouri and Martha Palmer | |
| AUG: A combined
classification and clustering approach for web people
disambiguation Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste and Timur Fayruzov | |
| CITYU-HIF: WSD with
Human-Informed Feature Preference Oi Yee Kwong | |
| CU-COMSEM: Exploring
Rich Features for Unsupervised Web Personal Name
Disambiguation Ying Chen and James H. Martin | |
| CU-TMP: Temporal
Relation Classification Using Syntactic and Semantic
Features Steven Bethard and James H. Martin | |
| CUNIT: A Semantic Role
Labeling System for Modern Standard Arabic Mona Diab, Alessandro Moschitti and Daniele Pighin | |
| DFKI2: An Information
Extraction Based Approach to People Disambiguation Andrea Heyl and Günter Neumann | |
| FBK-irst: Lexical
Substitution Task Exploiting Domain and Syntagmatic
Coherence Claudio Giuliano, Alfio Gliozzo and Carlo Strapparava | |
| FICO: Web Person
Disambiguation Via Weighted Similarity of Entity Contexts Paul Kalmar and Matthias Blume | |
| HIT-IR-WSD: A WSD
System for English Lexical Sample Task Yuhang Guo, Wanxiang Che, Yuxuan Hu, Wei Zhang and Ting Liu | |
| HIT: Web based Scoring
Method for English Lexical Substitution Shiqi Zhao, Lin Zhao, Yu Zhang, Ting Liu and Sheng Li | |
Roser Morante and Bertjan Busser | |
| IRST-BP: Web People
Search Using Name Entities Octavian Popescu and Bernardo Magnini | |
| JHU1 : An Unsupervised
Approach to Person Name Disambiguation using Web Snippets Delip Rao, Nikesh Garera and David Yarowsky | |
| JU-SKNSB: Extended
WordNet Based WSD on the English All-Words Task at
SemEval-1 Sudip Kumar Naskar and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay | |
| KU: Word Sense
Disambiguation by Substitution Deniz Yuret | |
| LCC-TE: A Hybrid
Approach to Temporal Relation Identification in News Text Congmin Min, Munirathnam Srikanth and Abraham Fowler | |
| MELB-MKB: Lexical
Substitution system based on Relatives in Context David Martinez, Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin | |
| NAIST.Japan: Temporal
Relation Identification Using Dependency Parsed Tree Yuchang Cheng, Masayuki Asahara and Yuji Matsumoto | |
| NUS-ML:Improving Word
Sense Disambiguation Using Topic Features Jun Fu Cai, Wee Sun Lee and Yee Whye Teh | |
| OE: WSD Using Optimal
Ensembling (OE) Method Harri M. T. Saarikoski | |
| PKU: Combining
Supervised Classifiers with Features Selection Peng Jin, Danqing Zhu, Fuxin Li and Yunfang Wu | |
| PNNL: A Supervised
Maximum Entropy Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation Stephen Tratz, Antonio Sanfilippo, Michelle Gregory, Alan Chappell, Christian Posse and Paul Whitney | |
| PU-BCD: Exponential
Family Models for the Coarse- and Fine-Grained All-Words
Tasks Jonathan Chang, Miroslav Dudik and David Blei | |
| PUTOP: Turning
Predominant Senses into a Topic Model for Word Sense
Disambiguation Jordan Boyd-Graber and David Blei | |
| RACAI: Meaning
Affinity Models Radu Ion and Dan Tufis | |
| 12:30–14:30 | lunch and SIGLEX/Semeval meeting |
| Poster session 3 | |
| 14:30–15:45 | CLR:
Integration of FrameNet in a Text Representation System Kenneth C. Litkowski |
| RTV: Tree Kernels for
Thematic Role Classification Daniele Pighin, Alessandro Moschitti and Roberto Basili | |
| SHEF: Semantic Tagging
and Summarization Techniques Applied to Cross-document
Coreference Horacio Saggion | |
| SICS: Valence
annotation based on seeds in word space Magnus Sahlgren, Jussi Karlgren and Gunnar Eriksson | |
| SW-AG: Local Context
Matching for English Lexical Substitution George Dahl, Anne-Marie Frassica and Richard Wicentowski | |
| SWAT-MP:The
SemEval-2007 Systems for Task 5 and Task 14 Phil Katz, Matt Singleton and Richard Wicentowski | |
| TITPI: Web People
Search Task Using Semi-Supervised Clustering Approach Kazunari Sugiyama and Manabu Okumura | |
| TKB-UO: Using Sense
Clustering for WSD Henry Anaya-Sánchez, Aurora Pons-Porrata and Rafael Berlanga-Llavori | |
| Tor, TorMd:
Distributional Profiles of Concepts for Unsupervised Word Sense
Disambiguation Saif Mohammad, Graeme Hirst and Philip Resnik | |
| UA-ZBSA: A Headline
Emotion Classification through Web Information Zornitsa Kozareva, Borja Navarro, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo | |
| UA-ZSA: Web Page
Clustering on the basis of Name Disambiguation Zornitsa Kozareva, Sonia Vazquez and Andres Montoyo | |
| UBC-ALM: Combining
k-NN with SVD for WSD Eneko Agirre and Oier Lopez de Lacalle | |
| UBC-AS: A Graph Based
Unsupervised System for Induction and Classification Eneko Agirre and Aitor Soroa | |
| UBC-UMB: Combining
unsupervised and supervised systems for all-words WSD David Martinez, Timothy Baldwin, Eneko Agirre and Oier Lopez de Lacalle | |
| UBC-UPC: Sequential
SRL Using Selectional Preferences. An approach with Maximum Entropy
Markov Models Beñat Zapirain, Eneko Agirre and Lluís Màrquez | |
| UBC-ZAS: A k-NN based
Multiclassifier System to perform WSD in a Reduced Dimensional Vector
Space Ana Zelaia, Olatz Arregi and Basilio Sierra | |
| UC3M_13:
Disambiguation of Person Names Based on the Composition of Simple Bags
of Typed Terms David del Valle-Agudo, César de Pablo-Sánchez and María Teresa Vicente-Díez | |
| UMND1: Unsupervised
Word Sense Disambiguation Using Contextual Semantic
Relatedness Siddharth Patwardhan, Satanjeev Banerjee and Ted Pedersen | |
| UNN-WePS: Web Person
Search using co-Present Names and Lexical Chains Jeremy Ellman and Gary Emery | |
| UNT-Yahoo:
SuperSenseLearner: Combining SenseLearner with SuperSense and other
Coarse Semantic Features Rada Mihalcea, Andras Csomai and Massimiliano Ciaramita | |
| UPAR7: A
knowledge-based system for headline sentiment tagging François-Régis Chaumartin | |
| UPV-WSD : Combining
different WSD Methods by means of Fuzzy Borda Voting Davide Buscaldi and Paolo Rosso | |
| USFD: Preliminary
Exploration of Features and Classifiers for the TempEval-2007
Task Mark Hepple, Andrea Setzer and Robert Gaizauskas | |
| USP-IBM-1 and
USP-IBM-2: The ILP-based Systems for Lexical Sample WSD in
SemEval-2007 Lucia Specia, Maria das Graças, Volpe Nunes, Ashwin Srinivasan and Ganesh Ramakrishnan | |
| USYD: WSD and Lexical
Substitution using the Web1T corpus Tobias Hawker | |
| UTD-SRL: A Pipeline
Architecture for Extracting Frame Semantic Structures Cosmin Adrian Bejan and Chris Hathaway | |
| UVA: Language Modeling
Techniques for Web People Search Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi and Maarten de Rijke | |
| WIT: Web People Search
Disambiguation using Random Walks José Iria, Lei Xia and Ziqi Zhang | |
| XRCE-T: XIP Temporal
Module for TempEval campaign. Caroline Hagège and Xavier Tannier | |
| 15:45–16:15 | coffee break |
| 16:15–16:30 | UPC:
Experiments with Joint Learning within SemEval Task 9 Lluís Màrquez, Lluís Padró, Mihai Surdeanu and Luis Villarejo |
| 16:30–16:45 | SemEval-2007 Task 19: Frame Semantic Structure
Extraction Collin Baker, Michael Ellsworth and Katrin Erk |
| 16:45–17:00 | LTH:
Semantic Structure Extraction using Nonprojective Dependency
Trees Richard Johansson and Pierre Nugues |
| 17:00–18:00 | Panel: Planning the future of SemEval |
| 18:00 | Closing |