NWR’s Enlighten Your Research 4 blog post

September 20, 2013
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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

August 29, 2013
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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

August 13, 2013
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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)

July 30, 2013
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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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FBK Workshop “Perspectives on Events”

July 18, 2013
Events
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Since one of the goals of NewsReader is to extract information on events from large streams of news and build structured indexes for decision making in the financial and economical domain, it is crucial to define what an event is. Although the notion of event has long been central for both modeling the semantics of natural language as well as reasoning in goal-driven tasks in artificial intelligence, the research community has yet to achieve a consensus on what is an…

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Knowledge Store Paper accepted at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing

July 8, 2013
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The following paper, describing the design of the Knowledge Store for NewsReader, has been accepted as full regular paper at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), to be held in Irvine, CA, USA, September 16-18, 2013: Francesco Corcoglioniti, Marco Rospocher, Roldano Cattoni, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini – Interlinking Unstructured and Structured Knowledge in an Integrated Framework, In 7th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), Irvine, CA, USA, 2013.

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Antske Fokkens to present at Annual Network Institute Event

July 3, 2013
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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

July 3, 2013
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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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