Seminar "Selected Topics in Information Extraction", Winter 2013/2014

Organization

This seminar is organized by Rainer Gemulla and Luciano Del Corro.
Regular meetings are every Tuesday at 10:15-11:45 in Room 021, Building E1.4 (MPI-INF).

How to register?

Registration is closed.

Recent topics in the area of information extraction

Goals

In this seminar, you will

Read, understand, and explore scientific literature
Summarize a current research topic in a concise report (5 pages)
Give a full presentation about your topic (45 minutes)
Give a flash presentation about your topic (5 minutes)
Moderate a scientific discussion about a topic of one of your fellow students

Requirements for the Certificate

All deadlines are firm.
Pick a topic from the list below. Prepare a 45 minutes presentation about your topic to introduce it to your fellow students. For each topic, we provide you with a main paper. To put the main paper into context, we expect you to (briefly) present at least one self-selected, related paper in your presentation.
Make a first appointment with your tutor (who will be announced along with the topics) to discuss the outline of your presentation at least 4 weeks in advance of your presentation. You are responsible for scheduling meetings with your tutor.
Point out advantages or potential weaknesses of the work covered in your presentation. If you are unsure about what to present, talk to your tutor. Note that—even though relevant presentations may be available on the web—we expect that you prepare your own slides (which may be, of course, inspired by the original slides). Send your slides to and discuss them with your tutor at least 2 weeks before your talk. Otherwise, your talk may be cancelled. Send the final version of your slides to both your tutor and the moderator on the Friday before your presentation .
Each presentation is followed by approximately 15 minutes of discussion. The discussion is moderated by a second student. The moderator's role is to provide interesting input (such as observations, questions, related work) for the discussion and, in general, to enable a constructive discussion. A preliminary version of the presenter's slides will be sent to the moderator on the Friday before the presentation.
Three weeks after your talk, submit a short report (not longer than 5 pages) about your topic. The report should concisely summarize the article and point out strengths and weaknesses.
In our last meeting, give a 5 minutes flash presentation about your topic. As before, discuss your slides with your tutor at least 2 weeks before the presentation.
Attend all presentations, not just your own. If you are ill, let us know in advance.
Actively participate in the discussions.
Slides, presentations, and reports must be prepared in English.
Your final grade is influenced by: your oral presentations, your knowledge about your topic (e.g., as shown in the discussion after your presentation), your performance as a moderator, your general participation in the seminar, and your written report.

Tentative Schedule

Oct. 15, 2013: Introduction

Materials: Organization (pdf), Giving Conference Talks (pptx)
Nov. 5, 2013: Linguistic Resources

Materials: slides (pdf)

Nov. 12, 2013: Knowledge Bases

Main reference:	J. Hoffart, F. Suchanek, K. Berberich, G. Weikum YAGO2: A Spatially and Temporally Enhanced Knowledge Base from Wikipedia Special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2012
Presenter:	Abdul Sattar
Moderator:	Christian Schulte
Tutor:	Luciano Del Corro
Materials:	slides (pdf)

Nov. 19, 2013: Table Extraction

Main reference:	M. J. Cafarella, A. Halevy, D. Zhe Wang, E. Wu, Y. Zhang WebTables: exploring the power of tables on the web Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2008
Presenter:	Alexandr Chernov
Moderator:	Sugavanesh Sadasivam Nagarathinam
Tutor:	Luciano Del Corro
Materials:	slides (pdf)

Nov. 26, 2013: Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation

Main reference:	J. Hoffart, M. A. Yosef, I. Bordino, H. Fürstenau, M. Pinkal, M. Spaniol, B. Taneva, S. Thater, G. Weikum Robust disambiguation of named entities Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011
Presenter:	Abdalghani Abujabal
Moderator:	Ramkumar Aruchamy
Tutor:	Rainer Gemulla
Materials:

Dec. 3, 2013: Rule-Based Information Extraction

Main reference:	R. Krishnamurthy, Y. Li, S. Raghavan, F. Reiss, S. Vaithyanathan, H. Zhu SystemT: a system for declarative information extraction ACM SIGMOD, 2008
Presenter:	Cholpon Degenbaeva
Moderator:	Amir Hossein Baradaran
Tutor:	Rainer Gemulla
Materials:

Dec. 10, 2013: Relation Extraction

Main reference:	M. Mintz, S. Bills, R. Snow, D. Jurafsky Distant supervision for relation extraction without labeled data Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, 2009
Presenter:	Christian Schulte
Moderator:	Dilafruz Amanova
Tutor:	Luciano Del Corro
Materials:

Dec. 17, 2013: Open Information Extraction

Main reference:	A. Fader, S. Soderland, O. Etzioni Identifying relations for open information extraction Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language, 2011
Presenter:	Sugavanesh Sadasivam Nagarathinam
Moderator:	Susanne Fertmann
Tutor:	Rainer Geumulla
Materials:

Jan. 7, 2013: Relation Clustering

Main reference:	S. Riedel, L. Yao, A. McCallum, B. M. Marlin Relation Extraction with Matrix Factorization and Universal Schemas Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013
Presenter:	Amir Hossein Baradaran
Moderator:	Abdul Sattar
Tutor:	Rainer Gemulla
Materials:

Jan. 14, 2013: Semantic Role Labeling

Main reference:	L. Márquez, X. Carreras, K. C. Litkowski, S. Stevenson Semantic Role Labeling: An Introduction to the Special Issue Journal Computational Linguistics, 2008
Presenter:	Susanne Fertmann
Moderator:	Alexandr Chernov
Tutor:	Luciano Del Corro
Materials:

Jan. 21, 2013: Question Answering

Main reference:	A. Fader, L. Zettlemoyer, O. Etzioni Paraphrase-Driven Learning for Open Question Answering Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013
Presenter:	Ramkumar Aruchamy
Moderator:	Cholpon Degenbaeva
Tutor:	Rainer Gemulla
Materials:

Jan. 28, 2013 Reasoning

Main reference:	G. Kasneci, J. Van Gael, R. Herbrich, T. Graepel Bayesian knowledge corroboration with logical rules and user feedback ECML PKDD, 2013
Presenter:	Dilafruz Amanova
Moderator:	Abdalghani Abujabal
Tutor:	Luciano Del Corro
Materials:

Feb. 4, 2013: Flash presentations