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2009 Workshop on Applied Textual Inference

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Thursday, August 6, 2009

8:45–9:00Opening Remarks
 Session 1: Foundational Aspects and Linguistic Analysis of Textual Entailment
9:00–9:30Multi-word expressions in textual inference: Much ado about nothing?
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Sebastian Pado and Christopher D. Manning
9:30–10:00A Proposal on Evaluation Measures for RTE
Richard Bergmair
10:00–10:30Coffee Break
10:30–11:00Sub-sentencial Paraphrasing by Contextual Pivot Translation
Aurélien Max
11:00–12:00Invited Talks
12:00–13.50Lunch
 Session 2: Learning Textual Entailment Rules and Building Corpora
13:50–14:20Augmenting WordNet-based Inference with Argument Mapping
Idan Szpektor and Ido Dagan
14:20–14:50Optimizing Textual Entailment Recognition Using Particle Swarm Optimization
Yashar Mehdad and Bernardo Magnini
14:50–15:10Ranking Paraphrases in Context
Stefan Thater, Georgiana Dinu and Manfred Pinkal
15:10–15:30Building an Annotated Textual Inference Corpus for Motion and Space
Kirk Roberts
15:30–16:00Coffee Break
 Session 3: Machine Learning Models and Application of Textual Inference
16:00–16:30Using Hypernymy Acquisition to Tackle (Part of) Textual Entailment
Elena Akhmatova and Mark Dras
16:30–17:00Automating Model Building in c-rater
Jana Sukkarieh and Svetlana Stoyanchev
17:00–17:20Presupposed Content and Entailments in Natural Language Inference
David Clausen and Christopher D. Manning
17:20–18:00Final Panel and Discussion