CLEOPATRA 2021

Co-located with The Web Conference (WWW) 2021

Date: April 12, 2021

Participation: Online

Workshop proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2829/ and indexed by DBLP

Recorded talks are available: https://av.tib.eu/series/1066/cleopatra+workshop+2021

Keynote speaker: Roberto Navigli is a professor of Computer Science at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he leads the Sapienza NLP Group. He is one of the few researchers to have received two prestigious ERC grants in computer science on multilingual word sense disambiguation (2011-2016) and multilingual language- and syntax-independent open-text unified representations (2017-2022). In 2015 he received the META prize for groundbreaking work in overcoming language barriers with BabelNet, a project also highlighted in The Guardian and Time magazine, and winner of the Artificial Intelligence Journal prominent paper award 2017. He is the co-founder of Babelscape, a successful company which enables Natural Language Understanding in dozens of languages. He is a Program Chair of ACL-IJCNLP 2021.

Keynote talk: “Scaling Semantic Role Labeling and Semantic Parsing Across Languages

Abstract: Sentence-level semantics is hampered by the lack of large-scale annotated data in non-English languages. In this talk I will focus on two key tasks aimed at enabling Natural Language Understanding, that is, Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) and semantic parsing, and put forward innovative approaches which we developed to scale across languages. I will show you how new, language-independent techniques – including new deep learning architectures and high-quality silver data creation, as well as a brand-new, wide-coverage, multilingual verb frame resource, namely VerbAtlas – will help significantly close the gap between English and low-resource languages, and achieve the state of the art across the board.

Schedule (Central European Summer Time)

14:00-14:10 Welcome session

14:10-15:00 Keynote talk: Roberto Navigli Scaling Semantic Role Labeling and Semantic Parsing Across Languages

Recorded talk: https://av.tib.eu/media/52947

15:00-15:15 Diego Alves, Gaurish Thakkar and Marko Tadić Building and Evaluating Universal Named-Entity Recognition English corpus

Recorded talk: https://av.tib.eu/media/52948

15:15-15:30 Luis Adrián Cabrera-Diego, Jose G. Moreno and Antoine Doucet Simple ways to improve NER in every language using markup

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-16:15 Gullal S. Cheema, Sherzod Hakimov, Eric Müller-Budack and Ralph Ewerth On the Role of Images for Analyzing Claims in Social Media

Recorded talk: https://av.tib.eu/media/52942

16:15-16:30 Abdul Sittar and Dunja Mladenić Using the profile of publishers to predict barriers across news articles

Recorded talk: https://av.tib.eu/media/52944

16:30-16:40 Gaurish Thakkar, Nives Mikelic Preradović and Marko Tadić Multi-task Learning for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis

Recorded talk: https://av.tib.eu/media/52943

16:40-16:55 Simon Gottschalk, Endri Kacupaj, Sara Abdollahi, Diego Alves, Gabriel Amaral, Elisavet Koutsiana, Tin Kuculo, Daniela Major, Caio Mello, Gullal S. Cheema, Abdul Sittar, Swati, Golsa Tahmasebzadeh and Gaurish Thakkar OEKG: The Open Event Knowledge GraphBEST PAPER AWARD!

Recorded talk: https://av.tib.eu/media/52945

16:55-17:05 Sourav Dutta ““Alignment is All You Need”: Analyzing Cross-Lingual Document Similarity for Domain-Specific Applications

Recorded talk: https://av.tib.eu/media/52946

17:05-17:10 Closing session