HLT-nlp news

In the contest of Evalita 2016, we are co-organizing FactA (Event Factuality Annotation), the first evaluation exercise for factuality profiling of events in Italian.

Title: Identifying User Issues and Request Types in Forum Question Posts based on Discourse Analysis

Authors: Agnes Sandor, Nikolaos Lagos, Ngoc Phuoc An Vo, Caroline Brun.

"MEANTIME, the NewsReader Multilingual Event and Time Corpus", "Annotating opposition relations among Italian verb senses using crowdsourcing", "Classifying Temporal Relations with Simple Features", and "Corpora for Learning the Mutual Relationship between Semantic Relatedness and Textual Entailment"

Vivi Nastase and Carlo Strapparava. knoWitiary: A Machine Readable Incarnation of Wiktionary. International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications. Vol. 6 No. 2 - December 2015

- Cross-language projection of multilayer semantic annotation in the NewsReader Wikinews Italian Corpus (WItaC)
- FacTA: Evaluation of Event Factuality and Temporal Anchoring
- Annotating opposition among verb senses: a crowdsourcing experiment

Title: Text mining for pharmacovigilance: Using machine learning for drug name recognition and drug–drug interaction extraction and classification

Authors: Asma Ben Abacha, Md Faisal Mahmub Chowdhury, Aikaterini Karanasiou, Yassine Mrabet, Alberto Lavelli, Pierre Zweigenbaum

Student Ngoc Phuoc An Vo has been selected for the Google NLP PhD Summit 2015, which will be held at Google Zurich on 23 - 26 Setember 2015.

- Slogans are not forever: Adapting Linguistic Expressions to the News
- Looking at Mondrian's Victory Boogie-Woogie: What do I feel?

Four oral presentations (three task organization and one system description) three system description posters by HLT-NLP researchers

Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, Gözde Özbal and Carlo Strapparava. Exploring Sensorial Features for Metaphor Identification

Marco Guerini, Gözde Özbal and Carlo Strapparava. Echoes of Persuasion: The Effect of Euphony in Persuasive Communication

Carlo Strapparava and Rada Mihalcea. Affect detection in texts. In R. Calvo et al. editors, Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing. Oxford University Press, December 2014.

Octavian Popescu and Carlo Strapparava. Time corpora: Epochs, opinions and changes. Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, 69:3—13, October 2014.

Round table Time and Language at "Festival della Scienza" in Genoa

Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, Gözde Özbal and Carlo Strapparava. A Computational Approach to Generate a Sensorial Lexicon

Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu, Gözde Özbal and Carlo Strapparava. Sensicon: An Automatically Constructed Sensorial Lexicon

The 2014 edition of the MT Marathon, organised by the HLT group at FBK, will start next week

Four Papers accepted in COLING 2014

Automation and Evaluation of the Keyword Method for Second Language Learning.
Gözde Özbal, Daniele Pighin and Carlo Strapparava