October 2004

ILIT is hosting TMI 2004, Oct. 4-6 in Baltimore. See http://tmi04.his.se/tmi04/ for details.

May 2004

Sergei Nirenburg presented two papers: Some Meaning Procedures of Ontological Semantics and The Rationale for Building Resources Expressly for NLP at the LREC conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

Marge McShane presented a paper on OntoSem Methods for Processing Semantic Ellipsis at the HLT/NAACL-04 Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics.

April 2004

Sergei Nirenburg gave a presentation at the National Library of Medicine.

March 2004

Marge McShane made a presentation The Crosslingual Reuse and Extension of Knowledge Resources in Ontological Semantics at the Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics.

February 2004

Marge McShane made a presentation on detecting named entities in texts in any language at a meeting of the ITEC-sponsored research group on less commonly taught languages held at University of Maryland, College Park.

December 2003

Sergei Nirenburg gave keynote address "Automating World and Language Knowledge Acquisition" at the Israeli Seminar on Computational Linguistics, The Technion, Haifa, December 17.

Sergei Nirenburg gave a talk at the Applied Psychology Unit of Arisona State University.

November 2003

Graeme Hirst of the University of Toronto visits ILIT.

October 2003

Sergei Nirenburg presented a talk about ILIT’s text analysis work at the ARDA AQUAINT Fall Symposium in Seattle, WA.

Roger Schvaneveldt of Arizona State visits to give a CS Seminar talk and to discuss joint research.

September 2003

Marge McShane published a lexicon acquisition manual for Ontosem.

August 2003

Marge McShane and Sergei Nirenburg gave a tutorial on ontological semantics and the semantic web at the EUROLAN Summer School in Bucharest, Romania.

Marge McShane presented the paper about ontological semantics in information extraction at the Workshop on Reference Resolution associated with the EUROLAN Summer School.

Marge McShane and Sergei Nirenburg traveled to University of Colorado for talks about joint research with colleagues at the Center for Speech and Language Research there.

ILIT has moved into its new suite, 202 ECS Building.

June 2003

Sergei Nirenburg organized, with Graeme Hirst of the University of Toronto, a workshop on Text Meaning at the HLT-NAACL-03 Conference in Edmonton, Canada.