Natural language research announcements

["Corina R. Girju" <girju AT cs.uiuc.edu>]

>   Hi everyone,
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>   Please find below the syllabus for LING591: "Reasoning about Time
>   and Events", an advanced seminar that I'm going to teach this semester.
>   This seminar would be of particular interest to students (in Ling.,
>   CS, ECE, LIS) doing work that involves advanced natural language
>   temporal and event processing and reasoning techniques.
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>   For any questions, please contact me at 
> girju AT uiuc.edu.
>
>   Roxana Girju
>   Assistant Professor
>   Linguistics
>   Beckman Institute
>   Computer Science (Affiliate)
>   Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese (Affiliate)
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>   LING 591 (CRN 32058): /Reasoning with Time and Events/
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>       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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>       Fall 2008, M 11-12:20pm in 1126FLB (will be moved in 2169
>       Beckman after 1st week)
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>       !!! Syllabus is subject to change !!!
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> *Time*
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> *Readings*
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> *Presenters*
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> *Part** I.** Theoretical foundations*
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> Aug 25
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> *Introduction*
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> Tense, Aspect, and Event Structure – The Language of Time: A Reader, 
> 2005**
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> Sep 1
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> Labor Day
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> Sep 8
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> Verbs and Times - Zenno Vendler, 1967
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> The Algebra of Events – Emmon Bach, 1986
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> Sep 15
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> The Tense of Verbs - Hans Reichenbach 
> <http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/%7Ecs112/docs/Reichenbach-LOT.pdf>, 1947
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> Temporal Ontology and Temporal Reference - Marc Moens and Mark 
> Steedman, 1988
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> *Part II. Temporal Annotation and Representation*
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> Sept 2
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> The Annotation of Temporal Information in Natural Language Sentences - 
> Graham Katz and Fabrizio Arosio, 2001
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> Assigning Time-Stamps to Event-Clauses - Elena Filatova and Eduard 
> Hovy, 2001
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> Sept 29
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> Using Semantic Inference for Temporal Annotation Comparison - Andrea 
> Setzer, Robert Gaizauskas, and Mark Hepple, 2001
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> Time-ML, TimeBank – James Pustejovsky et al., 2003
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> Oct 6
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> SemEval 2007 – Task 15: TempEval - Marc Verhagen, 2007
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> *Part III. Time – Event Extraction and Reasoning*
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> Oct 13
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> *Temporal Reasoning – The Language of Time: A Reader, 2005*
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> Learning sentence-internal temporal relations – Lapata & Lascarides, 2006
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> Oct 20
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> Modelling space and time in narratives about restaurants – Erik 
> Muller, 2007
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> Learning a Probabilistic Model of Event Sequences From Internet Weblog 
> Stories – Manshadi et al. 2008
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> Oct 27
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> Machine Learning of Temporal Relations – Inderjeet Mani at al., 2006
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> Classifying Temporal Relations Between Events 
> <http://www.stanford.edu/%7Ejurafsky/acl07-chambers.pdf> - Chambers, 
> Wang, Jurafsky, 2007
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> Nov 3
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> Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Event Chains – Chambers and 
> Jurafsky, 2008
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> Experiments with reasoning for temporal relations between events – M. 
> Tatu and M. Srikanth, 2008
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> *Part IV. Applications*
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> Nov 10
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> Splitting Complex Temporal Questions for Question Answering Systems – 
> Saquete et al., 2004
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> Task-Oriented Extraction of Temporal Information: The Case of Clinical 
> Narratives – Gaizauskas et al., 2006
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> Nov 17
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> Temporal information extraction from legal documents – F.Schilder & A. 
> McCulloh, 2005
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> Temporal representation and reasoning in medicine: Research directions 
> and challenges 
> <http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T4K-4M7VB1S-1&_user=571676&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2006&_rdoc=3&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info%28%23toc%234977%232006%23999619997%23636755%23FLA%23display%23Volume%29&_cdi=4977&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=8&_acct=C000029040&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=571676&md5=42beebb98e861ac53c5d9974929c9b02>/ 
> /- Klaus-Peter Adlassnig et al., 2006
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> Nov 22 - 30
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> Thanksgiving Holiday
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> *Challenges and Research Directions*
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> Dec 1
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> Veridicity 
> <http://www2.parc.com/istl/members/zaenen/publications/veridicity.pdf> 
> – Lauri Karttunen & Annie Zaenen, 2005* *
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> *Information Access Challenges in the Blogspace – G. Mishne, 2006***
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> Dec 8
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> /Understanding temporal aspects in document classification – Mourao et 
> al., 2008/
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> *Temporal reasoning about fuzzy intervals* 
> <http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy2.library.uiuc.edu/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TYF-4RJRVS6-2&_user=571676&_coverDate=05%2F31%2F2008&_rdoc=11&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_srch=doc-info%28%23toc%235617%232008%23998279991%23684047%23FLP%23display%23Volume%29&_cdi=5617&_sort=d&_docanchor=&_ct=11&_acct=C000029040&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=571676&md5=660de822a59238adbcf88ab557c17616> 
> - Steven Schockaert 
> <http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81327491570&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=39377347&CFTOKEN=44750897> 
> & Martine De Cock 
> <http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81327488131&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&trk=0&CFID=39377347&CFTOKEN=44750897>, 
> 2008//
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> Dec 12 - 19
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> *Project presentations*
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