Program

8:45 Opening Remarks

9:00 Invited Talk by Bill Dolan

10:00 Evaluating Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions in Context: Results for German and the Role of Information Structure (Detmar Meurers, Ramon Ziai, Niels Ott and Janina Kopp) https://sites.google.com/site/textinfer2011/program/slides-meurersetal.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Towards a Probabilistic Model for Lexical Entailment (Eyal Shnarch, Jacob Goldberger and Ido Dagan) http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~shey/publications/TextInfer11%20presentation.pps

11:30 Classification-based Contextual Preferences (Shachar Mirkin, Ido Dagan, Lili Kotlerman and Idan Szpektor)

12:00 Is it Worth Submitting this Run? Assess your RTE System with a Good Sparring Partner (Milen Kouylekov, Yashar Mehdad and Matteo Negri) https://sites.google.com/site/textinfer2011/program/koulyekovetal.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

12:20 Diversity-aware Evaluation for Paraphrase Patterns (Hideki Shima and Teruko Mitamura) https://sites.google.com/site/textinfer2011/program/20100730-TextInfer2011-hideki.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

12:40 Lunch

14:20 Representing and resolving ambiguities in ontology-based question answering (Christina Unger and Philipp Cimiano) https://sites.google.com/site/textinfer2011/program/TextInfer_UngerCimiano.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

14:50 Strings over intervals (Tim Fernando) https://sites.google.com/site/textinfer2011/program/fernando.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

15:20 Discovering Commonsense Entailment Rules Implicit in Sentences (Jonathan Gordon and Lenhart Schubert) https://sites.google.com/site/textinfer2011/program/gordon.discovering-commonsense.slides.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1

15:40 Coffee break

16:10 Final Panel and Discussion