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 Tuesday, December 24, 2012 and Tuesday, December 31, 2013 (christmas break).

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

2. Wednesday October 30, 2013: Machine Learning Introduction

3. Wednesday November 6, 2013: NO SESSION

4. Wednesday November 13, 2013: NLP Basics 1/2

5. Wednesday November 20, 2013: NLP Basics 2/2

6. Wednesday November 27, 2013: TextRunner + KnowItAll

7. Wednesday December 4, 2013: tbd

8. Wednesday December 11, 2013: tbd

9. Wednesday December 18, 2013: tbd

10. Wednesday January 8, 2013: tbd

11. Wednesday January 15, 2013: tbd

12. Wednesday January 22, 2013: tbd

13. Wednesday January 29, 2013: tbd

14. Wednesday February 5, 2013: tbd

15. Wednesday February 12, 2013: tbd