Transcript Conference and Workshop Tracker Andy Carlson Vitor Carvalho Kevin Killourhy Mohit Kumar Overview • We intend to find and gather the salient details about upcoming and past.

Conference and Workshop
Tracker
Andy Carlson
Vitor Carvalho
Kevin Killourhy
Mohit Kumar
Overview
• We intend to find and gather the salient details about
upcoming and past conferences and workshops.
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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.
Belief Rules
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ConferenceURL(<conf-name>,<url>)
DeadlineFor(<conf-name>,<date>)
DateOf(<conf-name>,<date>)
LocationOf(<conf-name>,<location>)
(note: “conference” is being used to denote workshops as well)
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
Extraction Rules (1)
Example for conference URLs and submission deadlines:
• If page title for <url> matches “… Conference on …” then
believe ConferenceURL(<name>, <url>)
– ConferenceURL(“8th Annual Conference on Computational
Genomics”,
“http://www.jax.org/courses/events/coursedetails.do?id=137”)
– 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”)
Extraction Rules (2)
• If string=“Abstract Submission: <date>” at
<url> and ConferenceURL(<name>,<url>)
then believe DeadlineFor(<name>,<date>)
- DeadlineFor(“Twenty-First National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence”,
“February 16”)
Extraction Rules (3)
• If table has column X=“Deadline” and column Y=“Conference” then
for each row extract DeadlineFor(Y,X)
• From http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/conference_schedule.php
– DeadlineFor(“NIPS 2005” , “June 03, 2005”)
– DeadlineFor(“HLT-NAACL 2006”, “December 16, 2005”)
– DeadlineFor(“AAAI 2006”, “February 16, 2006”)
– (and 9 others)