Text Analysis and Knowledge Engineering Lab is a research group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Our research focuses on the intersection of text mining, information retrieval, and natural language processing.
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Saturday, 13 April 2013 09:55 |
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Takelab member Goran Glavaš participated in the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics on the Samos island in Greece presenting the work entitled "Exploring Coreference Uncertainty of Generically Extracted Event Mentions" . Besides being an excellent academic event, conference also provided the opportunity to explore this beautiful Mediterranean island, home of Pythagoras, Epicurus, and Aesop.
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Wednesday, 05 December 2012 15:33 |
On November 30th, 2012, TakeLab participated in the "Language Technologies Day", an international conference as a part of the CESAR project. TakeLab members presented their latest products and language technologies to colleagues in academia and IT industry. |
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012 14:15 |
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A state-of-the-art named entity extraction (NER) system for Croatian language has been developed in TakeLab. A web demonstration is available. The system can successfully extract many named entity types (most important being Person, Organisation, and Location) from text. A detailed description can be found in the paper.
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Thursday, 29 November 2012 11:16 |
TakeLab member Jan Šnajder was a guest on Croatian Radio in the "Oko znanosti" show. He presented activities of TakeLab as a combination of text mining, information retrieval and natural language processing. Also, he explained the complexities as well as many useful and beneficial applications in these areas. The full show can be found online. |
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:53 |
TakeLab member Artur Šilić proposed the title of his PhD thesis on November 13, 2012. The accepted title of his PhD thesis is "Temporal visualization of large text collections based on correspondence analysis". |
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:33 |
TakeLab has participated in the international Information Society
(IS 2012) meta conference held 8. - 12. October in Ljubljana, Slovenia with six papers. In addition to giving and attending paper presentations, TakeLab members Jan Šnajder, Goran Glavaš, Mladen Karan, and Artur Šilić also took the oportunity to see the beautiful city of Ljubljana.
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Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:18 |
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TakeLab has participated in 8th International Conference on Formal Approaches in South Slavic and Balkan Languages held September 19 - 21 in Dubrovnik, Croatia with two papers: "Semi-Supervised Named Entity Recognition for Croatian Language" (Tomislav Lombarović, Jan Šnajder) and "Recognition of Temporal Expressions in Croatian Language" (Matija Hanževački, Jan Šnajder). The papers were presented by Jan Šnajder who also enjoyed the beautiful and ancient city of Dubrovnik.
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Tuesday, 06 November 2012 13:17 |
TakeLab has participated in 15 International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue held September 3-7 in Brno, Czech Republic with three papers: "Semi-supervised Acqusition of Croatian Sentiment Lexicon" (Glavaš, Šnajder, Dalbelo Bašić), "Towards a Constraint Grammar Based Morphological Tagger for Croatian" (Peradin, Šnajder), and "Optimizing Sentence Boundary Detection for Croatian" (Šarić, Šnajde, Dalbelo Bašić). All three papers were presented by TakeLab member Jan Šnajder who enjoyed the beauty of the Czech countryside as much as he enjoyed the conference.
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Tuesday, 06 November 2012 12:39 |
TakeLab PhD students Frane Šarić i Goran Glavaš have each proposed the title and original scientific contributions of their PhD theses.
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Tuesday, 06 November 2012 12:35 |
TakeLab members Frane Šarić and Goran Glavaš participated at a *SEM conference in Montreal in June. Frane and Goran presented the paper "Takelab Systems for Measuring Semantic Text Similarity" describing the systems with which TakeLab participated in a SemEval Task 6 on Semantic Textual Similarity and ranked excellent 2nd in the compettion of over 30 universities worldwide. Some of the time was also spared for touristic exploration of the Quebec's largest city.
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