Learning by Reading and Learning to Read
Papers from the 2009 AAAI Spring Symposium
Sergei Nirenburg and Tim Oates, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-09-07. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Organizing Committee / iii
Sergei Nirenburg and Tim Oates
Preface / vii
Sergei Nirenburg and Tim Oates
Toward Never Ending Language Learning / 1
Justin Betteridge, Andrew Carlson, Sue Ann Hong, Estevam R. Hruschka Jr., Edith L. M. Law, Tom M. Mitchell, Sophie H. Wang
Learning by Reading: Normalizing Complex Linguistic Structures onto a Knowledge Representation / 3
Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi, Lauri Karttunen, Annie Zaenen
Learning a Named Entity Tagger from Gazetteers with the Partial Perceptron / 7
Andrew Carlson, Scott Gaffney, Flavian Vasile
A Study of Machine Reading from Multiple Texts / 14
Peter Clark, John Thompson
Methods of Rule Acquisition in the TextLearner System / 22
Jon Curtis, David Baxter, Peter Wagner, John Cabral, Dave Schneider, Michael Witbrock
Using Wikitology for Cross-Document Entity Coreference Resolution / 29
Tim Finin, Zareen Syed, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Christine Piatko
Steps Towards a Second Generation Learning by Reading System / 36
Kenneth D. Forbus, Kate Lockwood, Abhishek Sharma, Emmett Tomai
Kleo: A Bootstrapping Learning-by-Reading System / 44
Doo Soon Kim, Bruce Porter
Learning and Evaluating the Content and Structure of a Term Taxonomy / 50
Zornitsa Kozareva, Eduard Hovy, Ellen Riloff
Resolving References and Identifying Existing Knowledge in a Memory Based Parser / 58
Kevin Livingston, Christopher K. Riesbeck
Cross-Document Coreference Resolution: A Key Technology for Learning by Reading / 65
James Mayfield, David Alexander, Bonnie Dorr, Jason Eisner, Tamer Elsayed, Tim Finin, Clay Fink, Marjorie Freedman, Nikesh Garera, Paul McNamee, Saif Mohammad, Douglas Oard, Christine Piatko, Asad Sayeed, Zareen Syed, Ralph Weischedel, Tan Xu, David Yarowsky
Lexical Inference and the Problem of the Long Tail / 71
David D. McDonald
Discovering Causal and Temporal Relations in Biomedical Texts / 74
Rutu Mulkar-Mehta, Jerry R. Hobbs, Chun-Chi Liu, Xianghong Jasmine Zhou
Leveraging Lexical Resources for the Detection of Event Relations / 81
Martha Palmer, Jena D. Hwang, Susan Windisch Brown, Karin Kipper Schuler, Arrick Lanfranchi
What Is This, Anyway: Automatic Hypernym Discovery / 88
Alan Ritter, Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni
Language Understanding as Recognition and Transduction of Numerous Overlaid Patterns / 94
Lenhart Schubert
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