Schedule: AAAI 2006 Workshop on Event Extraction and Synthesis

9:15am-9:30 am:

Introduction

9:30 am – 10:30 am:

Session - Event Modeling (I)

Using Explicit Semantic Models to Track Situations Across News Articles

Earl Wagner, Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum, Kenneth Forbus, and James Baker

Northwestern University

Event Discovery in Multimedia Reconnaissance Data Using Event Clustering

Bo Gong, Utz Westermann, Srikanth Agaram and Ramesh Jain

UC Irvine

10:30am-11am: Coffee Break

11am-12noon

Session: Event Modeling (II)

A Continous Time Model of Topic Co-occurrence Trends

Wei Li, Xuerui Wang, and Andrew McCallum

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Combining Techniques for Event Extraction in Summary Reports

N. McCracken, N. Ozgencil, and S. Symonenko

Syracuse University

12noon - 1:15 pm: Lunch

1:15pm-2:45pm

Session: Event Detection and Clustering

Event Extraction from Heterogeneous News Sources

M.Naughton, N.Kushmerick, and J.Carthy

University College Dublin

Automatic Event Classification Using Surface Text Features

Hilda Hardy, Vika Kanchakouskaya, and Tomek Strzalkowski

SUNY Albany

Automatic Event and Relation Detection with Seeds of Varying Complexity

Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoriet, and Hong Li

DFKI

2:45pm-3:30pm

Invited Talk by Dr. Ralph Weischedel

Topic: TBD

3:30pm-4pm: Coffee Break

4pm-4:30pm

Discussion: ‘Open table’ discussion on some event extraction issues of interest

4:30pm-5:30pm

Session – Event Extraction

What Can Linguistics Contribute to Event Extraction ?

Charles Fillmore, Srini Narayanan, and Collin Baker

ICSI Berkeley

Integrating Techniques for Event Based Intelligence Gathering

Kareem Aggour, John Interrante, and Ibrahim Gokeen

GE Global Research