ATEM-2004: The AAAI-04 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining

ATEM-2004: The AAAI-04 Workshop on
Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining
July 2004
San Jose, California

The ATEM-2004 Schedule

8:55-10:00

8:50-8:55		Opening Remarks

	Invited talk by Mark Craven IE from the Biomedical Literature: The Demand, the Opportunity, and the Challenge

10:00-10:30		Coffee break

10:30-11:45		Long papers (1) Information Extraction by Convergent Boundary Classification Aidan Finn and Nicholas Kushmerick The Use of Web-based Statistics to Validate Information Extraction Stephen Soderland, Oren Etzioni, Tal Shaked, and Daniel S. Weld Using Soft-Matching Mined Rules to Improve Information Extraction Un Yong Nahm, and Raymond J. Mooney

11:45-12:09		Posters' advertisements (8 posters x 3' per poster)

12:10-2:00		Lunch break

2:00-3:15		Long papers (2) Populating the Semantic Web Kristina Lerman, Cenk Gazen, Steven Minton, and Craig Knoblock Handling irregularities in ROADRUNNER Valter Crescenzi, Giansalvatore Mecca, and Paolo Merialdo A Comparison of Keyword- and Keyterm-based Methods for Automatic Web Site Summarization Yongzheng Zhang, Evangelos Milios, and Nur Zincir-Heywood


3:15-4:30		Poster session (includes Coffee break between 3:30 and 4:00) Graded Levels of Generalization in Intensional Query Answering Farah Benamara Learning Text Patterns for Web Information Extraction and Assessment Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni, Stephen Soderland, and Daniel S. Weld Using Statistical Techniques and WordNet to Reason with Noisy Data Rakesh Gupta and Mykel J. Kochenderfer A Bootstrapping Approach to Information Extraction Domain Porting Cheng Niu, Wei Li and Rohini Srihari Class Extraction from the World Wide Web Ana-Maria Popescu, Alexander Yates, Oren Etzioni Unsupervised Induction of IE Domain Knowledge using an Ontology M Stevenson Lexical Semantics Domain Model for Information Extraction Patricia Lutsky A Graphical Model for Shallow Parsing Sequences Adrian Silvescu, and Vasant Honavar


4:30-5:30		Evaluation and Discussion IE evaluation: Criticisms and recommendations A. Lavelli, M. E. Califf, F. Ciravegna, D. Freitag, C. Giuliano, N. Kushmerick, L. Romano Panel & Discussion: Evaluation, Open Problems, Future Trends Panelists: Valter Crescenzi, Oren Etzioni, Nick Kushmerick, Steven Minton, Stephen Soderland.