Intensivwoche 2010
- Date: 7.-11. June 2010
Place: University of Zurich, Institute of
Computational Linguistics, Binzmühlestr. 14, ZH-Oerlikon
Topic: Name Classification and Grounding in Multilingual Corpora
- Presentation by experts on toponym recogniton
- Hands-on evaluation of existing name classification tools
- Experiments on extending a name classification tool
- Experiments with visualisation tools
Target Audience
- Advanced undergraduate students in Computational Linguistics
- Master students in Computational Linguistics and Multilingual Text Analysis
- Master students in related fields (e.g. Geography, Information Retrieval, Text Mining)
- We can arrange for earning ECTS points.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 9-12 10:00h Martin Volk : Introduction and Overview of the Text+Berg project 11:00h Reto Gubelmann: State of Programming Project on Mountain Name Recognition 11:30h Maya Bangerter: Introduction to GATE 10:00h Jannik Strötgen (Uni Heidelberg): Annotating Spatio-Temporal Information 11:30h Martin Volk: Introduction to toponym annotation guidelines and evaluation 10.00h Project Work: Adapting and extending tools for name classification 09:30h Pascal Sutter and Tobias Hodel (Rechtsquellenstiftung): Names in Swiss Law Sources 11:00h Ross Purves (Geography, UZH): Name recognition for geographical information retrieval 10:00h Project Work: Tools for name classification, visualisation, evaluating and documenting 14-17 14:00h Project Work: Prepare British Alpine Documents (OCR, Export Cleaning) 14:00h Project Work: GATE baseline experiments + Annotating gold standards + Evaluation 14:00h Paper Study (2 papers per Student) 14:00h Project Work: Comparing GATE for English with Named Entity Recognition for other languages (DE, FR) 14:00h Final Student Presentations incl. Literature Reviews Course Evaluation