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= Welcome to the Wiki of the seminar '''Information Extraction''' in the winter semester 2013 / 2014 =
This seminar will be given by [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/haussmann|Elmar Haußmann]] and [[https://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/storandt|Sabine Storandt]], from the chair of [[http://ad.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/staff/bast|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.

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. We will also cover the NLP background required for understanding.

Here is a tentative list of topics and systems (each of which will roughly explained in the first session): POS tagging, text chunking, entity recognition, semantic role labeling, syntax parsing, Textrunner, Knowitall, SRL-IE, Kraken, R2A2, PATTY, SOFIE, PROSPERA, NELL, Reverb, OLLIE, CSD-IE, ClausIE. The topics and dates will be assigned in the first sessions.

== Sessions ==


  1. Wednesday October  23, 2013: '''Introduction and Topic Assignment'''
  1. Wednesday October  30, 2013: '''Machine Learning Introduction'''
  1. Wednesday November  6,  2013: '''NO SESSION'''
  1. Wednesday November 13,  2013: '''NLP Basics 1/2'''
  1. Wednesday November 20,  2013: '''NLP Basics 2/2'''
  1. Wednesday November 27,  2013: '''!TextRunner + !KnowItAll'''
  1. Wednesday December  4,  2013: '''tbd'''
  1. Wednesday December 11,  2013: '''tbd'''
  1. Wednesday December 18,  2013: '''tbd'''
  1. Wednesday January   8,  2013: '''tbd'''
  1. Wednesday January  15,  2013: '''tbd'''
  1. Wednesday January  22,  2013: '''tbd'''
  1. Wednesday January  29,  2013: '''tbd'''
  1. Wednesday February  5,  2013: '''tbd'''
  1. Wednesday February 12,  2013: '''tbd'''