CLEF QA Track 2014 Workshop Programme

HT2: High Tor 2, up to 200 people

Monday 15th Sept

15:30 – 18:00

Labs overview

High Tor 2

2.5 hrs

18:00 – 19:30

Poster session and Welcome reception

Bar area

2 hrs

 

Tuesday 16th Sept.

Room HT2: High Tor 2

10:30 - 10:40

Welcome

10:40 - 11:00

QALD Overview. C. Unger

11:00 - 11:25

Entrance Exams Overview. Anselmo Peñas

11:30 - 12:30

Invited talk: P. Ruch “An Inquiry into Question-Answering and Deep QA”

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 13:50

BioASQ Overview: A. Krithara and G. Paliouras [presentation]

13:50 - 14:15

BioASQ paper: J. Lingeman and L. Dietz “UMass at BioASQ 2014: Figure-Inspired Text Retrieval” [presentation]

14:15 - 14:40

BioASQ paper: M. L. Neves “HPI in-memory-based database system in Task 2b of BioASQ” [presentation]

14:40 - 15:05

BioASQ paper: J. G. Mork, D. Demner-Fushman, S. C. Schmidt, A. R. Aronson “Recent Enhancements to the NLM Medical Text Indexer” [presentation]

15:05 - 15:30

BioASQ paper: J. R. Adams and S. Bedrick “Automatic Classification of PubMed Abstracts with Latent Semantic Indexing” [presentation]

15:30 – 16:00

Break

16:00 - 16:25

BioASQ paper: F. J. Ribadas, L. M. de Campos, V. M. Darriba, A. E. Romero“CoLe and UTAI participation at the 2014 BioASQ semantic indexing challenge” [presentation]

 

16:25 - 16:50

BioASQ paper: Y. Papanikolaou, D. Dimitriadis, G. Tsoumakas, M. Laliotis, N. Markantonatos, I. Vlahavas “Ensemble Approaches for Large-Scale Multi-Label Classification and Question Answering in Biomedicine” [presentation]

16:50 - 17:15

BioASQ paper: Y. Mao, C.-H. Wei, Z. Lu “NCBI at the 2014 BioASQ challenge task: large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering” [presentation]

17:15 - 17:40

BioASQ paper: K. Liu, J. Wu, S. Peng, C. Zhai, S. Zhu “The Fudan-UIUC participation in the BioASQ Challenge Task 2a: The Antinomyra system” [presentation]

17:40 - 18:00

BioASQ announcement of winners and awards [presentation]

 

19:00 –24:00

Conference dinner

Cutlers Hall

 

 


 

Wednesday 17th Sept

Room HT2: High Tor 2

13:30 - 13:54

Entrance Exams paper: H. Gómez-Adorno, G. Sidorov, D. Pinto and A. Gelbukh. “Graph Based Approach for the Question Answering Task Based on Entrance Exams”

13:54 - 14:18

Entrance Exams paper: D. Laurent, B. Chardon, S. Negre and P. Seguela. “Synapse Développement at Entrance Exams 2014”

14:18 - 14:42

QALD paper: Corina Dima “Answering Natural Language Questions with Intui 3”

14:42 - 15:06

QALD paper: Kun Xu “Answering Natural Language Questions via Phrasal Semantic Parsing”

15:06 - 15:30

QALD paper: Seonyeong Park “ISOFT at QALD-4: Semantic similarity-based question answering system over linked data”

15:30 – 16:00

Break

16:00 - 16:25

QALD paper: Kun Xu “gAnswer at QALD-4”

16:25 - 16:50

QALD paper: Cyril Grouin “Description of the POMELO system for the task 2 of QALD-2014”

16:50 - 17:15

QALD paper: Anca Marginean “GFMed: Question Answering over BioMedical Linked Data with Grammatical Framework”

17:15 - 17:35

INEX Linked Data resources for QA

17:35 – 17:55

Breakout session: Current challenges and future directions for QA

17:55 - 18:00

Closing

 

Thursday 18th Sept

13:00 – 14:00

CLEF 2015 Labs proposals  and Closing

High Tor 2

1 hr