We started applying our ideas about the usage of the background information to develop a system able to perform WSD and Entity linking by using this kind of information. The task number 13 of the SemEval competition forum was selected to test our hypohesis: Multilingual WSD and Entity Linking Our main idea was to build READ MORE
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— ULM-3 participates in SemEval 2015 Task 4 TimeLine: Cross-Document Event Ordering
Members of the ULM-3 subproject participated in the SemEval 2015 Task 4 TimeLine: Cross-Document Event Ordering. READ MORE
— Jun. 05 2015: ExProM Workshop
Workshop Extra-Propositional Aspects of Meaning (ExProM) in Computational Linguistics June 5, 2015. Collocated with NAACL 2015, Denver, CO, USA http://www.cse.unt.edu/exprom2015/ During the last decade, semantic representation of text has focused on extracting propositional meaning, i.e., capturing who does what to whom, when and where. Several corpora are available, and existing tools extract this kind of READ MORE
— NLP for Policy Making
As a joint initiative with the Digital Humanites Group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK, Trento), we set up a collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) on the automatic analysis of linguistic data contained in the answers given by the participants of the public consultation “La Buona Scuola” (#labuonascuola). #labuonascuola has been READ MORE
— Jul. 2015: The First Workshop on Computing News Storylines [NewsStory]
In conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2015 July 2015, Bejing, China Narratives are at the heart of information sharing. Ever since people began to share their experiences, they have connected them to form narratives. Modern day news reports still reflect this narrative structure, but they have proven difficult for automatic tools to summarise, structure, or connect to READ MORE
— Oct. 30 2014: Round table on ‘Time and Language’
Event date: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 – 18:30 to 20:00 The round table “Time and Language”, organized by Tommaso Caselli (VUA, Amsterdam) and Rachele Sprugnoli (DH-FBK), will be held in Genoa on Thursday October 30 as part of “Festival della Scienza “. Time is a pervasive element of human life that is also reflected in READ MORE
— Oct. 23 2014: Reference Machine: visit Tech Labs Network Institute
Thursday October 23rd 2014: Piek, Alessandro, Emiel, Filip and Minh met up with Marco Otte and Desmond Germans in the Tech Labs of the Network Institute to exchange first ideas about building the Reference Machine. READ MORE
Jun. 10, 2013: Piek Vossen winner of Spinoza Prize 2013
NWO Spinoza laureates announce plans for their prize money // September 27, 2013 On September 27, 2013 the three NWO Spinoza laureates of 2013 – physicist Michail Katsnelson, chemist Bert Weckhuysen and linguist Piek Vossen – announced their plans for the 2.5 million euros prize each of them has received. Piek Vossen, Professor of Computational READ MORE