2017 CUA program overview

MultiLing 2017 Overview

In this brief report we present an overview of the MultiLing 2017 effort and workshop, as implemented within EACL 2017. MultiLing is a community-driven initiative that pushes the state-of-the-art in Automatic Summarization by providing data sets and fostering further research and development of summarization systems. This year the scope of the workshop was widened, bringing together researchers...

TREC 2017 Tasks Track Overview

Research in Information Retrieval has traditionally focused on serving the best results for a single query, ignoring the reasons (or the task) that might have motivated the user to submit that query. Often times search engines are used to complete complex tasks; achieving these tasks with current search engines requires users to issue multiple queries. For example, booking travel to a location ...

Program Committee of ITAT 2017

We describe an annotation experiment combining topics from lexicography and Word Sense Disambiguation. It involves a lexicon (Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs, PDEV), an existing data set (VPS-GradeUp), and an unpublished data set (RTE in PDEV Implicatures). The aim of the experiment was twofold: a pilot annotation of Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) on PDEV implicatures (lexicon glosses...

TIPSTER Program Overview

The task of TIPSTER Phase I was to advance the state of the art in two language technologies, Document Detection and Information Extraction. Document Detection includes two subtasks, routing (running static queries against a stream of new data), and retrieval (running ad hoc queries against archival data). Information Extraction is a technology in which pre-specified types of information are lo...

Tutorial Program Overview