As the summer break is coming to an end, all the SIELers are geared up to start the fresh semester with a sense of accomplishment, I believe. This summer, many of us are busy with various activities such as preparing for TAC and CLEF competitions, participating in summer schools and working on our projects (which is evident from the lack of posts in this blog)
We have submitted three runs for update summary task of TAC and also one for QA task. Let us keep our fingers crossed.
There were three summer events in NLP/IR areas where I gave a few talks:
- IASNLP at IIIT-H,
- NLP-Summer school at IIT Kharagpur and
- NLP-Ontology Summer workshop in IIT Bombay.
Each of these workshops were wonderful and I really enjoyed interacting with the participants. I focused on IR/IE at IIIT-H workshop with a few examples on building scalable IE systems. My talk at IIT Kharagpur built on previous talk with a focus on recent trends in IE including the trend towards building frameworks. In IIT Bombay, I talked about personalization in IR/IE and IA.
