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NWR’s Enlighten Your Research 4 blog post

The NewsReader consortium is currently preparing a full proposal for Enlighten Your Research 4 (EYR4). Participating in EYR4 would provide us with more computing power, and also very important, advice from the experts running these big machines on how to best use this computing power. During the competition every finalist (i.e. team who made it through the first round) is invited to write a blog post for SurfNet about the project. This morning NewsReader’s post was published.

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NWR’s favourite ACL papers

Several NewsReader members attended ACL 2013 to present their own work [1] [2] [3] and to see what other colleagues in the field are working on. Here is a small selection of papers that are related to the NewsReader project and from which we are drawing inspiration for the next steps in our project. Recognizing Identical Events with Graph Kernels Goran Glavaš and Jan Šnajder How to detect whether two event mentions refer to the same event is still an…

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NWR Paper Nominated for Best Paper at ACL

The paper “Offspring from Reproduction Problems: What Replication Failure Teaches Us” which was co-authored by NewsReader team members Antske Fokkens, Marieke van Erp and Piek Vossen was runner up for the best paper award at ACL 2013 last week. In the paper, difficulties in reproducibility of prior research tools and experiments are addressed. Many researchers have come across cases where they had wanted to reuse an approach described in a research paper but found out that it was very difficult…

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Offspring from Reproduction Problems (invitation to discussion and announcement ACL presentation)

Despite clear methodological descriptions and making our code and data available, it is still difficult to make our research reproducible. We would like to invite the NLP community to join a discussion on reproducing results from NLP research. One of the main questions we want to address is how we can get a better understanding of our methods through systematic research. Please visit our website: http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/reproducingnlpresearch/ to join our discussion group or share your experiences and ideas. …or come and talk to…

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Antske Fokkens to present at Annual Network Institute Event

Antske Fokkens will present at the Annual Network Institute Event on July 4. During this event, the different groups working together in the interdisciplinary Network Institute at VU University will come together to exchange their research ideas and results. Antske will describe her attempts at reproducing some research published by others in her field, using the original data. And guess how easy that was…  

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NWR at OpeNER hackathon

Yesterday, several NWR team members participated in the Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Big Data Hackathon organised by our colleagues from the OpeNER project. During this hackathon, some 50 participants (amongst others developers, linguists, designers and historians) got together to put current state-of-the-art language technology through a little stress test in some actual use cases. The app ideas that the different teams came up with varied from analysing hotel reviews and visualising the results in different ways, to mining…

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Piek Vossen receives Spinoza prize

Today, the chairman of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced that Piek Vossen is one of the three scientists this year to receive the highest award in Dutch science: the NWO Spinoza prize. Skip to the NWO website for the  official press release.  

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First NewsReader publication: GAF: Grounded Annotation Framework

At NewsReader we’ve been working hard since the kick-off to set up the infrastructure for the project. One of the most important things that we needed to get done as soon as possible was to agree on an annotation format, so we can get going on building an evaluation data set. The result of close collaboration between the research partners resulted in the Grounded Annotation Framework (GAF). This framework consists of two layers, linguistic layer, and a semantic layer, to…

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