[Ltg] HAIL/HCSNet Seminar *Reminder* (7th August): Dr Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country

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                      H.A.I.L. Seminar series
                          CSIRO ICT Centre
                   http://www.ict.csiro.au/HAIL/

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                    An HCSNet Sponsored Seminar
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Title:          Enriching and using large-scale lexico-semantic
resources

Speaker:        Dr Eneko Agirre
                IXA Natural Language Processing Research Group
                Computer Science Department
                University of the Basque Country

Date:           Tuesday 7th August 2007 at 11am

Location:       CSIRO ICT Centre,
                Building E6B, Macquarie University.

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Abstract

This talk presents a research line for the semantic processing of
natural language. Current limitations of semantic interpretation systems
stem from the pervasive ambiguity in natural language. Our working
hypothesis is that a complex mixture of resources (ranging from
hand-made knowledge bases, lexicons and hand-tagged corpora to raw
corpora) and machine learning strategies built by different researchers
need to be integrated in order to advance the state-of-the-art. An
architecture using the EuroWordNet design will be presented, with some
examples of integrating both hand-made resources and automatically
learned relations. Finally, some promising applications on CLIR are
presented, as well as the ongoing SemEval 07 / CLEF 2008 exercise on
evaluating the contribution of WSD to CLIR.


Short resume

Dr. Agirre received his PhD (1999) and B.A. (1990) in Computer Science
by the University of the Basque Country, M.Sc. (1991) in Cognitive
Science by the University of Edinburgh. He is currently an associate
professor in the Computer Science Faculty of the University of the
Basque Country since 1995. He has published over 90 refereed articles
and conference papers in Natural Language Processing, mainly in the
areas of Lexical Knowledge Acquisition and Word Sense Disambiguation. He
is co-editor of the Springer book "Word Sense Disambiguation". He is a
usual program committee member of several conferences, including the
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference, the
Computational Natural Language Learning conference, the Text Speech and
Dialogue Conference, the Global WordNet Conferences and several
workshops in major conferences (ECAI, ACL and COLING). He is a usual
reviewer for several major conferences including IJCAI, ACL, HLT, COLING
and EMNLP, and several journals including LRE (formerly CHUM), NLE and
JSL. He has been the site coordinator and workpackage leader of major
projects, including the HERMES Spanish national project and the MEANING
European Commission 5FP project. He is organizing the SemEval-2007
semantic evaluation competition and workshop.


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