Keynote: “Distributional Representation of Complex Semantics”
– Kuansan Wang / Microsoft Research
Talk 1: “Overcoming Low-Utility Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval” – Sean MacAvaney, Andrew Yates, Arman Cohan, Luca Soldaini, Kai Hui, Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00
Keynote: “Learning New Type Representations from Knowledge Graphs”
– Soumen Chakrabarti / IIT Bombay
Talk 2: “Neural Variational Entity Set Expansion for Automatically Populated Knowledge Graphs” – Pushpendre Rastogi, Adam Poliak, Vince Lyzinski and Benjamin Van Durme
Talk 3: “Summarizing Entities using Distantly Supervised Information Extractors” – Travis Wolfe, Annabelle Carrell, Mark Dredze and Benjamin Van Durme
Talk 4: “Automated Knowledge Hierarchy Assessment” – Guruprasad Nayak, Sourav Dutta, Deepak Ajwani, Pat Nicholson and Alessandra Sala
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Keynote: “Project Alexandria – In Pursuit of Commonsense AI”
– Scott Wen-tau Yih / Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Keynote: “Open Knowledge Network”
– Chaitan Baru / National Science Foundation
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00
Talk 5: “WordNetContext: Information Retrieval-friendly access to WordNet Senses” – Chumki Basu, Laura Dietz and Christiane Fellbaum
