Welcome to the Wiki of the seminar '''Information Extraction''' in the winter semester 2013 / 2014
This seminar will be given by Elmar Haußmann and Sabine Storandt, from the chair of Prof. Dr. Hannah Bast (who will also attend the sessions). The seminar will take place every Wednesday, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm ct., in the seminar room 00-007 in building 106. There will be no session on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 and Wednesday, January 1, 2014 (christmas break) and on Wednesday, November 6, 2013. Therefore, depending on the number of talks/participants, we will have at most 14 sessions.
Information Extraction is the task of extracting (structured) information from natural language text. We will cover interesting topics in this area with a focus on current state-of-the-art systems for Open Information Extraction. We will also cover the NLP background required for understanding.
Topics
The topics and dates will be assigned in the first sessions. Here is a tentative list of topics and systems (each of which will roughly explained in the first session):
- NLP Basics 1/2 (POS tagging, chunking, NER, NED)
- NLP Basics 2/2 (constituent / dependency parsing, SRL)
Never Ending Language Learning (Demo / Data available)
OLLIE (Code available)
PATTY (Demo available)
Dependency based OpenIE (Code available)
ClausIE (Code available)
Relation Extraction With Matrix Factorization (Code available)
Sessions
Wednesday October 23, 2013: Introduction and Topic Assignment
Wednesday October 30, 2013: Machine Learning Introduction
Wednesday November 6, 2013: NO SESSION
Wednesday November 13, 2013: NLP Basics 1/2
Wednesday November 20, 2013: tbd
Wednesday November 27, 2013: tbd
Wednesday December 4, 2013: tbd
Wednesday December 11, 2013: tbd
Wednesday December 18, 2013: tbd
Wednesday January 8, 2013: tbd
Wednesday January 15, 2013: tbd
Wednesday January 22, 2013: tbd
Wednesday January 29, 2013: tbd
Wednesday February 5, 2013: tbd
Wednesday February 12, 2013: tbd