Eneko Agirre

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Associate professor
IXA research group
Computer Science Department
University of the Basque Country

tel: +34 943 015 019
fax: +34 943 015 590

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This page is mainly for research dissemination, I guess. I am currently involved in the following research issues:

Processing of Basque
Measures of relatedness/similarity among concepts, words, phrases and sentences
Word Sense Disambiguation and Named Entity Disambiguation
Semantic Role Labeling
Information Extraction
Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Reading
Domain adaptation of NLP tools and resources
Applications of semantic processing to IR, CLIR and QA

Blog in Basque and English about the IXA NLP group.

You can check my list of projects and publications (also in Google citations and Msoft academic search) including a book on WSD:

Word Sense Disambiguation: Algorithms and applications (springer site, book site)
Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology , Vol. 33
Agirre, Eneko; Edmonds, Philip (Eds.)
2006, Approx. 385 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4808-4
2007, Approx. 385 p., Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6870-6

Activities:

Arantza Otegi (PhD student) wins Koldo Mitxelena price for best technical PhD in Basque
Co-organizer of the Shared task of *SEM 2013 on Semantic Textual Similarity
Local PI of CHIST-ERA project READERS on Machine Reading (2013-2015)
Helped build Google's dictionary for entities and ideas
Co-organizer of a SemEval 2012 task on Semantic Textual Similarity
General chair of a new conference on semantics *SEM 2012
Invited course on the winter school on language and specch technologies WSLST 2012
Area chair on Ontology and Lexicon for ACL 2012
Tutorial chair for EACL 2012
Co-organizer of TPDL 2012 workshop on Supporting Users' Exploration of Digital Libraries
President of ACL SIGLEX (2010-2013)
Editorial board member of Computational Linguistics (official, extra) (2011-2013)
Local PI of FP7 Project PATHS on access to Cultural Heritage (2011-2013)
Scholarpedia article about Word Sense Disambiguation

Download and demos:

Semantic textual similarity datasets
A split of the WordSim353 dataset into similarity and relatedness pairs
Software for graph-based WSD and similarity
Interfaces to: MEANING MCR, Basque WordNet, Basque Semcor
WSD demo for Basque
ML features for all content words with more than 10 occurrences in SemCor 1.6. More details here. The senses can be easily mapped to other WN versions here.
Sensecorpus, a corpus of examples from the web for all nouns in WordNet 1.6. The senses can be easily mapped to other WN versions here.
(Smaller subset used in our EMNLP 2004 paper here).
Topic signatures for all nominal senses in WordNet
Selectional preferences for all verbs in WordNet
Semantic interpretations of Basque case suffixes and English/Spanish prepositions.
Lexico-semantic relations for Basque headwords.
GWN tutorial on Automatic WordNet construction (slides)
Conceptual Density in Perl (tar file)
Project related data: CESS-ECE project, MEANING project

Past activities:

Invited talk at the Mavir meeting, Madrid, 2011 (slides)
Seminar at SRI, Menlo Park, 2011
Visiting associate professor, Stanford NLP group (Summer 2011)
PI of the co-ordinated KNOW2 project (intranet) (2010-2012)
Participant in the Europeana version 1.0 project (euskaraz) (2010-2012)
Participant in EC FP7 Project KYOTO (intranet) (2008-2011)
Area chair for semantics in EMNLP 2010
Area chair for semantics in ACL-IJCNLP 2010
Secretary of SIGLEX (2007-2010)
Panelist on the future of Semeval, ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden
5-day Seminar on “Semantic processing of text”, 2010, Bari, Italy (Links)
Organizer of SemEval 2010 task WSD on a Specific Domain
Co-editor of LRE journal special issue on Computational Semantic Analysis of Language (2010)
Visiting associate professor, Stanford NLP group, 2009
Invited talk at Google, Mountain View, 2009 (slides)
Organizer of the Robust WSD task @ CLEF 2009
Area co-chair for semantics in ACL-IJCNLP 2009
Co-chair of HLT-NAACL workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SEW-2009)
Area chair for word senses in EMNLP 2008.
Organizer of CLEF 2008 tasks on QA_WSD and CLIR_WSD.
Co-chair of SemEval-2007 (formerly Senseval).
Coordination of two tasks in SemEval-2007: WSD/CLIR interaction and WS induction.
Australian HCSNet visiting scholar in 2007. Check the seminars and video.
PI of the co-ordinated KNOW project (intranet) funded by the Education Ministry (2007-2009)

A cartoon in Basque about WSD (c) Olariaga in berria.info