Machine Reading
Papers from the 2007 AAAI Spring Symposium
Oren Etzioni, Program Chair
Technical Report SS-07-06. 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 / 1
Oren Etzioni
Machine Reading / 1
Oren Etzioni, Michele Banko, and Michael J. Cafarella
Inference In Text Understanding / 6
Peter Norvig
COALA: A Tool for Inter-document Coreference Resolution Evaluation / 11
Bradley M. Andrews, James Fan, J. William Murdock, and Chris Welty
Semantic Integration in Learning from Text / 17
Steven Bethard, Rodney Nielsen, James H. Martin, Wayne Ward, and Martha Palmer
Reporting on Some Logic-Based Machine Reading Research / 23
Selmer Bringsjord, Konstantine Arkoudas, Micah Clark, Andrew Shilliday, Joshua Taylor, Bettina Schimanski, and Yingrui Yang
Reading to Learn: An Investigation into Language Understanding / 29
Peter Clark, Phil Harrison, John Thompson, Rick Wojcik, Tom Jenkins, and David
Israel
Robust Graph Alignment Methods for Textual Inference and Machine Reading / 36
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Trond Grenager, Bill MacCartney, Daniel Cer, Daniel Ramage, Chloé Kiddon, and Christopher D. Manning
Ontology Learning from Text Using Automatic Ontological-Semantic Text Annotation and the Web as the Corpus / 43
Jesse English and Sergei Nirenburg
A Prototype System that Learns by Reading Simplified Texts / 49
Kenneth D. Forbus, Christopher Riesbeck, Lawrence Birnbaum, Kevin Livingston, Abhishek Sharma, and Leo Ureel
Machine Reading as a Cognitive Science Research Instrument / 55
Kenneth D. Forbus, Kate Lockwood, Emmett Tomai, Morteza Dehghani, and Jakub
Czyz
Machine Reading through Textual and Knowledge Entailment / 61
Andrew Hickl and Sanda Harabagiu
Using Episodic Memory in a Memory Based Parser to Assist Machine Reading / 67
Kevin Livingston and Christopher K. Riesbeck
Building Knowledge Base for Reading from Encyclopedia / 73
Ka Kan Lo and Wai Lam
Beginning to Understand Unstructured, Ungrammatical Text: An Information Integration Approach / 79
Matthew Michelson and Craig A. Knoblock
Moving from Textual Relations to Ontologized Relations / 85
Stephen Soderland and Bhushan Mandhani
Answering and Questioning for Machine Reading / 91
Lucy Vanderwende