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For the past year, I’ve been experimenting with using no Powerpoint Today, I’m trying a new experiment: all Powerpoint James Mayfield Tim Finin special thanks to Javier Artiles Hoa Dang Joe Ellis & LDC Ralph Grishman Heng Ji Dawn Lawrie Paul McNamee Doug Oard Tim Oates Ves Stoyanov Tan Xu Hey!

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For the past year, I’ve been experimenting with using no Powerpoint

Today, I’m trying a new experiment: all Powerpoint

James MayfieldTim Finin

special thanks to

Javier ArtilesHoa Dang

Joe Ellis & LDCRalph Grishman

Heng JiDawn Lawrie

Paul McNameeDoug OardTim Oates

Ves StoyanovTan Xu

Hey!

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So You Built Yourself a Knowledge Base...

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Is not my knowledge base

divine?

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Hey, that’s not your KB–yours is floating above your head.

That’s ground truth.

D’oh!

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Precision at 3 is unparalleled!

I built it on a grid!

But mine’s just as good!

No Perl at all...it’s pure Python!

It uses the Cyc upper-upper ontology!

It’s isomorphic with ground truth!

My extraction from text is state-of-the-art!

It uses DBPedia!

Gottabe’s theorem shows it quite

clearly!

I spot-checked the Justin Bieber entry – absolutely correct!

wc gives identical word counts! Identical!

I Crushed the attire-based entity matching

shared task at WebWorld Passions 2009! Grishman, eat

your heart out!

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Kids, Don’t let this be you.Find out how to know for sure whether your KB is a good, law-abiding KB

without a ground-truth KB!without alignment!without committing to a fixed KB formalism!

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Golly, thanks, Chief Wiggum!I’m going to visit the poster!

I’m going to try Cold Start KB Population at TAC 2012!

Wow, it’s all there at http://www.nist.gov/tac/2012/KBP