Thursday, August 6, 2009 |
| 8:45–9:00 |
Opening Remarks |
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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 |
Invited Talks |
| 12:00–13.50 |
Lunch |
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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 |
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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 |
