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, on Wednesday, January 1, 2014 (christmas break) and on Wednesday, October 30, 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 be roughly explained in the first session):

• NLP Basics 1/2 (POS tagging, chunking, NER, NED), Sven Lieber
• NLP Basics 2/2 (constituent / dependency parsing, SRL), Sven Lieber

• TextRunner + KnowItAll, Haixing Gu

• Distant supervision for RE without labeled data, Toby Peoples

• OpenIE using Wikipedia, Soraya Nikousokhan

• Never Ending Language Learning (Demo / Data available), Lukas Veneziano

• ReVerb + R2A2 (Code available), Patrick Notz

• OLLIE (Code available), Max Lotstein

• PATTY (Demo available), Ezequiel Primo

• Relation Extraction With Matrix Factorization (Code available), Licón José

• TREC Question Answering Track, Jennifer Nist

• Lymba (QA System), Fabian Schillinger

• Watson (QA System) + Relation Extraction for DeepQA, Tobias Paxian

• Robust Question Answering over the Web of Linked Data (QA System), Simon Skilevic

We are no longer assigning new topics.

Sessions

1. Wednesday October 23, 2013: Introduction and Topic Assignment Slides (Introduction + Organization, Topics), Video Recording

2. Wednesday October 30, 2013: NO SESSION

3. Wednesday November 6, 2013: Machine Learning Introduction Slides

4. Wednesday November 13, 2013: NO SESSION

5. Wednesday November 20, 2013: NLP Basics

6. Wednesday November 27, 2013: TextRunner, WOE(OpenIE using Wikipedia)

7. Wednesday December 4, 2013: Reverb, OLLIE

8. Wednesday December 11, 2013: NELL, PATTY

9. Wednesday December 18, 2013: Distant supervision for RE, RE With Matrix Factorization,

10. Wednesday January 8, 2013: TREC Question Answering Track, Lymba (QA System),

11. Wednesday January 15, 2013: Robust Question Answering over the Web of Linked Data (QA System), Watson (QA System)

12. Wednesday January 22, 2013: tbd

13. Wednesday January 29, 2013: tbd

14. Wednesday February 5, 2013: tbd

15. Wednesday February 12, 2013: tbd

Attention: Due to illness or assignment of further topics the dates might be postponed by a week or two. We will inform you about changes via email over the Daphne system (so please register), and update this webpage as soon as possible if any shifts occur.

Dates marked 'tbd' are tentative up to now and will be only used if further topics get assigned.