Useful links

• Related initiatives and projects
  

  • NewsExplorer an automatic news aggregation and analysis system that is being developed at the JRC at Ispra.

  • VIKEF an EU-funded Integrated Project that aims at using Semantic Web languages and tools to create Virtual Information and Knowledge Environments in different application scenarios

  • TimeML (Markup Language for Temporal and Event Expressions) a robust specification language for events and temporal expressions in natural language.

  • The NEWS Project A project aimed at developing News Intelligence Technology for the Semantic Web. Its main purpose is to extend the reach and delivery capabilities of online content provision and syndication services by supporting advanced personalized news discovery, analysis and presentation, and fostering interoperability across the news content provision and fruition lifecycle.

• Text annotation tools
  

  • Callisto a freely distributed annotation tool developed at the MITRE Corporation that supports linguistic annotation of textual sources for any Unicode-supported language.

• Resources
  

  • YamCha a generic, customizable, and open source text chunker oriented toward a lot of NLP tasks, such as POS tagging, Named Entity Recognition, base NP chunking, and Text Chunking.

• Events
  

  • OLP2 2nd Workshop on Ontology Learning and Population, held at COLING/ACL 2006, July 22nd, 2006, Sydney, Australia.

• Evaluation Campaigns
  

  • TERN (Time Expression Recognition and Normalization) aims at establishing a set of guidelines to annotate temporal expressions and a scheme for the normalization of their intended meaning or value.

  • ACE (Automatic Content Extraction) a NIST program with the aim of developing content extraction technologies to support automatic processing of human language in text form; LDC develops linguistic resources for the ACE Program.

  • TDT (Topic Definition and Tracking) a NIST program aimed at the evaluation of algorithms for discovering and threading together topically related material in streams of data such as newswire and broadcast news.