Doctoral Consortium at LSI-UNED

June 19-22, 2012, at UNED.

The Doctoral Consortium provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Natural Language Processing and Multimedia Information Retrieval to present their work in progress and to receive feedback from a panel of senior researchers. This event aims to explore, discuss and broad ideas. The forum includes an invited talk and two specialized mini-workshops open to a general audience.

Please download our schedule and our poster.

The event is open and free but seating is limited to the first registered participants. Please register here!

19 June 2012

MAVIR Invited Talk

Sala de Grados, Facultad de Educación, UNED


Issues in Merging Propositional and Distributional Semantics.

Ed Hovy (NLP Group, ISI/USC)

16h00 - 17h30

 


20 June 2012

Doctoral Consortium: “Tecnologías de la Lengua en la Web”

Sala José Fdez. Huertas. Facultad de Educación.

 

9h30: Bernardo Cabaleiro: Populating Knowledge Bases from Semantic Graphical Models.

10h05: Guillermo Garrido: Distantly supervised relation extraction and temporally anchored relation extraction.

11h05: Break

11h35: Rubén Granados: Multimedia Image Retrieval based on Late Semantic Fusion.

12h35: Ángel Castellanos: Generation of adaptative user models: A content-based approach.

13h00: David Hernández: Exploiting textual information in multimedia and multilingual Information Retrieval.

13h30: End of session

 


Doctoral Consortium: “Tecnologías de la Lengua en la Web”

Sala Florentino Sanz, Facultad de Educación, UNED


15h15: Damiano Spina: What do people tweet about @X? Entity profiling on microblog posts for online reputation management.

16h15: Tamara Martín: Topic Detection, Tracking and Trend Analysis of Social Media Data.

16h35: Jesús Santamaría: POS Tag Classes for Unsupervised Grammar Induction.

17h35 : End of session

 


21 June 2012

Doctoral Consortium: “Tecnologías de la Lengua en la Web”

Sala Florentino Sanz, Facultad de Educación, UNED

 

9h30: Alberto Pérez: Study and Improvement of a Fuzzy System for Representing Web Pages in a Clustering Task.

10h30: Agustín Delgado: Named Entities Disambiguation in a Multilingual Context.

10h50: Break

11h15: Board Meeting

13h00: End of session

 


15h00 – 17h00: Workshop
Recommendation & Evaluation

Sala Florentino Sanz, Facultad de Educación, UNED


Chair: Julio Gonzalo (NLP&IR Group, UNED)


Novelty and Diversity in Information Access.

Pablo Castells (IR Group, UAM)

 

A General Evaluation Measure for Information Access Tasks.

Enrique Amigó (NLP&IR Group, UNED)

 


22 June 2012

9h30 – 13h00: Workshop:
Machine Reading

Sala de Grados, Facultad de Educación, UNED

 

Chair: M. Felisa Verdejo (NLP&IR Group, UNED)


From Texts to Bitexts, from Grammars to Bigrammars.

Horacio Rodríguez (NLP Group, UPC)


Giving Structure to the Machine Readings.

Anselmo Peñas (NLP&IR Group, UNED)


Approaches to Machine Reading: Where Next?

Ed Hovy (NLP Group, ISI)

 


Presentation and Goals

The Doctoral Consortium provides a venue for student researchers investigating topics in Natural Language Processing and Multimedia Information Retrieval to present their work in progress and to receive feedback from a panel of senior researchers.

This event aims to explore, discuss and broad ideas. The forum includes an invited talk and two specialized mini-workshops open to a general audience.

Venue

All sessions and talks will be held in different rooms at UNED's Facultad de Educación. This faculty is located in the northern part of Ciudad Universitaria, between the A6 highway and CIEMAT.

How to arrive

Address: Facultad de Educación. c/ Juan del Rosal, 14. Ciudad Universitaria. E-28040 Madrid.

Bus lines: U, 83, 133, 162, F, G

Metro: Ciudad Universitaria (L6) + a 15-minute walk

Map: http://goo.gl/maps/91EZ

Registration

The event is open and free but seating is limited to the first registered participants. Please register here!

 

 
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