Conference and Workshop Tracker

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Conference and Workshop Tracker

• Andy Carlson
• Vitor Carvalho
• Kevin Killourhy
• Mohit Kumar

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Overview

• We intend to find and gather the salient details
  about upcoming and past conferences and
  workshops.
• Submission Deadline
• Date
• Location
• Meta-area (e.g., Machine Learning, Wireless
  Networks, or 12th Century Architecture)
• Organizing committee
• Home page
• Call for papers
• Other details
• We expect that some of these details will be
  difficult to extract, and may initially focus on
  deadlines, dates, and locations.

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Belief Rules

• ConferenceURL(ltconf-namegt,lturlgt)
• DeadlineFor(ltconf-namegt,ltdategt)
• DateOf(ltconf-namegt,ltdategt)
• LocationOf(ltconf-namegt,ltlocationgt)
• (note conference is being used to denote
  workshops as well)

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Redundancies

• Expect to exploit redundancies between
• Official conference/workshop homepage
• Lists of upcoming conferences maintained by
  research groups
• Similar lists by professional societies (e.g.,
  IEEE and ACM)
• Calls for papers archived from mailing lists
• Text before/after/inside links to conference
  homepage

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Extraction Rules (1)

• Example for conference URLs and submission
  deadlines
• If page title for lturlgt matches Conference on
  then believe ConferenceURL(ltnamegt, lturlgt)
• ConferenceURL(8th Annual Conference on
  Computational Genomics, http//www.jax.org/cours
  es/events/coursedetails.do?id137)
• ConferenceURL(3rd International Conference on
  Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics,
  http//www.icinco.org/)
• ConferenceURL(Twenty-First National Conference
  on Artificial Intelligence, http//www.aaai.org/
  Conferences/AAAI/aaai06.php)

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Extraction Rules (2)

• If stringAbstract Submission ltdategt at lturlgt
  and ConferenceURL(ltnamegt,lturlgt) then believe
  DeadlineFor(ltnamegt,ltdategt)
• - DeadlineFor(Twenty-First National Conference
  on Artificial Intelligence, February 16)

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Extraction Rules (3)

• If table has column XDeadline and column
  YConference then for each row extract
  DeadlineFor(Y,X)
• From http//l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/cogcomp/conference_sc
  hedule.php
• DeadlineFor(NIPS 2005 , June 03, 2005)
• DeadlineFor(HLT-NAACL 2006, December 16,
  2005)
• DeadlineFor(AAAI 2006, February 16, 2006)
• (and 9 others)

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