Event Extraction and Synthesis
Papers from the 2006 AAAI Workshop
Naveen Ashish, Doug Appelt, Dayne Freitag, and Dmitry Zelenko, Program Cochairs
Technical Report WS-06-07 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Preface / vii
Naveen Ashish, Doug Appelt, Dayne Freitag, and Dmitry Zelenko
Organizing Committee / vii
Naveen Ashish, Doug Appelt, Dayne Freitag, and Dmitry Zelenko
Event Extraction from Heterogeneous News Sources / 1
M. Naughton, N.Kushmerick, and J.Carthy
Combining Techniques for Event Extraction in Summary Reports / 7
Nancy McCracken, Necati Ercan Ozgencil, and Svetlana Symonenko
Automatic Event and Relation Detection with Seeds of Varying Complexity / 12
Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, and Hong Li
What Can Linguistics Contribute to Event Extraction? / 18
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Event Discovery in Multimedia Reconnaissance Data Using Spatio-Temporal Clustering / 24
Bo Gong, Utz Westermann, Srikanth Agaram, and Ramesh Jain
Integrating Techniques for Event-Based Business Intelligence Gathering / 30
Kareem S. Aggour, John Interrante, and Ibrahim Gokcen
Automatic Event Classification Using Surface Text Features / 36
Hilda Hardy, Vika Kanchakouskaya, and Tomek Strzalkowski
Using Explicit Semantic Models to Track Situations across News Articles / 42
Earl J. Wagner, Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Kenneth D. Forbus, and James Baker
A Continous Time Model of Topic Co-occurrence Trends / 48
Wei Li, Xuerui Wang, and Andrew McCallum