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…
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…
Events are at the heart of many of our daily information sources, being microposts, newswire, calendar information or sensor data. For detecting, representing and exploiting events in these sources, different research communities are each trying to resolve a small part of this puzzle. The goal of this workshop is to bring together those different areas in the recent surge of research on the use of events as a key concept for representing and organising knowledge on the Web. The workshop…
On Friday June 14, Marieke van Erp will give a talk titled “From events to stories: different ways of structuring the same bag of events over time” at the Soeterbeeck eHumanities Workshop. The full programme can be found here, and this is the abstract of her talk: From events to stories: different ways of structuring the same bag of events over time Marieke van Erp Postdoctoral researcher at VU University Amsterdam We know that certain events happened, such as the 2004…