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Simone Paolo Ponzetto - Ph.D. candidate

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After four wonderful years in Michael's group I moved on to the Computational Linguistics Department of the University of Heidelberg. Check my new homepage!                      

     
    		        
          		 
    News


    I eventually found my (weak) Erdös number: 4 (Rob Hall - Arnold L. Rosenberg - F.R.K. Chung - Erdös).

    We are releasing a taxonomy automatically generated from the network of categories in Wikipedia (RDF Schema format). We will be presenting this resource to the community at the forthcoming ECAI 2008.

    ACL'08 and LREC papers accepted! Together with the team from the JHU Summer Workshop on Exploiting Lexical & Encyclopedic Resources for Entity Disambiguation we will present (on both sides of the Atlantic:) BART: the Baltimore Anaphora Resolution Toolkit.

    Old news can be found here.


    Work Information


    I am currently pursuing my PhD at the University of Stuttgart under the supervision of prof. Hinrich Schütze while being affiliated here at EML as part of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group at EML Research gGmbH. My research topics deal with exploring encyclopedic knowledge sources (e.g. Wikipedia) and document-level learning methods for coreference resolution.


    Research Interests

    • Knowledge sources and Information Extraction for NLP applications
    • Lexical Semantics
    • Discourse Semantics and Pragmatics 
    Publications

      Search for my publications at Google Scholar.

      Journal publications
    • JAIR '07 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2007).
      Knowledge Derived from Wikipedia for Computing Semantic Relatedness.
      In: Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Volume 30, pp. 181-212.
      Conference publications
    • ECAI '08 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael       (2008).
      WikiTaxonomy: A large scale knowledge resource.
      In: Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece, 21-25 July, 2008 pp. 751-752.
    • ACL '08 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Versley, Yannick; Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Poesio, Massimo; Eidelman, Vladimir; Jern, Alan; Smith, Jason; Yang, Xiaofeng; Moschitti, Alessandro (2008)      . BART: A Modular Toolkit for Coreference Resolution.
      In: Companion Volume of the Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio, 16-18 June, 2008 pp. 9-12.
    • LREC '08 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Versley, Yannick; Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Poesio, Massimo; Eidelman, Vladimir; Jern, Alan; Smith, Jason; Yang, Xiaofeng; Moschitti, Alessandro (2008)      . BART: A Modular Toolkit for Coreference Resolution.
      In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marrakech, Morocco, 28-30 May, 2008.
    • ACL '07 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2007)      .
      An API for Measuring the Relatedness of Words in Wikipedia.
      In: Companion Volume of the Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, 23-30 June, 2007, pp. 49-52.
    • AAAI '07 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2007)      .
      Deriving a Large Scale Taxonomy from Wikipedia.
      In: Proceedings of the 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, B.C., 22-26 July, 2007, pp. 1440-1447.
    • DUC '07 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Filippova, Katja; Mieskes, Margot; Nastase, Vivi; Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2007).
      Cascaded Filtering for Topic-Driven Multi-Document Summarization
      In:       Proceedings of the 2007 Document Understanding Workshop, Rochester, N.Y., 22-27 April, 2007, pp. 30-35.
    • HLT-NAACL '07 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo (2007).
      Creating a Knowledge Base From a Collaboratively Generated Encyclopedia
      In:       Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Doctoral Consortium, Rochester, N.Y., 22-27 April, 2007, pp 9-12.
    • AAAI '06 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Strube, Michael; Ponzetto, Simone Paolo (2006).
      WikiRelate! Computing Semantic Relatedness Using Wikipedia.
      In: Proceedings of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston, Mass., 16-20 July, 2006, pp. 1419-1424.
    • HLT-NAACL '06 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2006).
      Exploiting Semantic Role Labeling, WordNet and Wikipedia for Coreference Resolution. In: Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, New York City, N.Y., 4-9 June, 2006, pp.192-199.
    • EACL '06 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2006).
      Semantic Role Labeling for Coreference Resolution.
      In: Companion Volume of the Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Trento, Italy, 3-7 April, 2006,       pp.143-146.
    • CoNLL '05 Shared Task (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Strube, Michael (2005).
      Semantic Role Labeling Using Lexical Statistical Information.
      In: Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Natural Language Learning, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 29-30 June 2005, pp.213-216.
    Technical reports
    • JHU '07 (PDF) (BibTeX)
      Poesio, Massimo; Day, David; Artstein, Ron; Duncan, Jason; Eidelman, Vladimir; Giuliano, Claudio; Hall, Rob; Hitzeman, Janet; Jern, Alan; Kabadjov, Mijail; Yong Wai Keong, Stanley; Mann, Gideon; Moschitti, Alessandro; Ponzetto, Simone Paolo; Smith, Jason; Steinberger, Josef; Strube, Michael; Su, Jian; Versley, Yannick; Yang, Xiaofeng; Wick, Michael (2007).
      ELERFED: Final Report.
      Technical report: The Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP).
    Teaching
     
    Together with my colleague Ulrich Scholz I taught a course in the summer semester 2007 at the Department of Computational Linguistics     of the University of Heidelberg on "Selected Themes from Artificial Intelligence" (Ausgewählte Themen der Künstlichen Intelligenz). You can get the slides here. For those interested in the materials for teaching purposes, please do not hesitate to contact me: I am happy to provide you with the LaTeX source and/or embedded images.

     
    Biographical Information
     
    I come from Milano, the city of fashion and Negroni Sbagliato. I got my first degree in Philosophy from the University of Milano, having graduated with a Laurea thesis in Formal Semantics under the supervision of prof. Andrea Bonomi and Gennaro Chierchia. I still enjoy meditating on the works from Husserl and Wittgenstein once in a while.     I first got caught into Computational Linguistics while visiting the Department of Alfa-Informatica at the University of Groningen as Erasmus student. Before coming to EML I spent some time in England pursuing an M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems under the supervision of prof. Stefan Wermter and Christo Panchev of the Hybrid Intelligent Systems group at the School of Computing of the University of Sunderland.

     
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