Class Meeting for 10-707 10/25/2010

This is one of the class meetings on the schedule for the course Information Extraction 10-707 in Fall 2010.

IE and Reasoning 2: Joint Inference with MLNs

• Slides

Required Readings

• Joint inference in information extraction, by H. Poon, P. Domingos. In PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2007.

Update: we will not cover the Bellare & McCallum paper Monday -- i.e., Generalized Expectation Criteria for Bootstrapping Extractors using Record-Text Alignment, by K. Bellare, A. McCallum. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2009.

Optional Readings

• Jointly Identifying Temporal Relations with Markov Logic, by K. Yoshikawa, J. NAIST, S. Riedel, M. Asahara, Y. Matsumoto. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP of the AFNLP, 2009.