— ULM1 participated at SemEval-2015 task #13: Multilingual WSD and Entity Linking

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

— 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

— 1st VU-Spinoza Workshop ULM-1

ULM-1: The borders of ambiguity. Presentation by: dr. Rubén Izquierdo Beviá & Marten Postma, MA. Understanding language by machines 1 1st VU-Spinoza workshop October 17th 2014 View/download presentation by dr. Rubén Izquierdo Beviá & Marten Postma, MA ULM-1: The borders of ambiguity (pdf) Rubén Izquierdo Beviá: “Context modelling. Our first approach to our Next Context READ MORE

— 1st VU-Spinoza Workshop ULM-2

ULM-2: Word, concept, perception and brain. Presentation by: Emiel van Miltenburg, MA & Alessandro Lopopolo, MA. Understanding language by machines 2 1st VU-Spinoza workshop October 17th 2014 View/download presentation by Emiel van Miltenburg, MA & Alessandro Lopopolo, MA ULM-2: Word, concept, perception and brain (pdf) Alessandro Lopopolo: “Semantics in the brain. Modal areas. The point READ MORE

— 1st VU-Spinoza Workshop ULM-3

ULM-3: Stories and world views as a key to understanding language. Presentation by: dr. Tommaso Caselli & dr. Roser Morante Vallejo. Understanding language by machines 3 1st VU-Spinoza workshop October 17th 2014 View/download presentation by dr. Tommaso Caselli & dr. Roser Morante Vallejo ULM-3: Stories and world views as a key to understanding language (pdf) READ MORE

— 1st VU-Spinoza Workshop ULM-4

ULM-4: A quantum model of text understanding. Presentation by: Minh Ngoc Lê, MSc & Filip Ilievski, Student assistant. Understanding language by machines 4 1st VU-Spinoza workshop October 17th 2014 View/download presentation by Minh Ngoc Lê, MSc & Filip Ilievski, Student assistant ULM-4: A quantum model of text understanding (pdf) Filip Ilievski: “Ontology-based reasoning. Spot redundancies/wrong READ MORE