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Center for the Extraction and Summarization of Events and Opinions in Text  
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OVERVIEW
The center is dedicated to  developing accurate and robust techniques for extracting and summarizing information about events and beliefs from free text. The goals of our research effort are threefold. 

(1) We will create easily trainable learning algorithms that can automatically create domain-specific patterns to identify facts and relations associated with relevant events, such as infectious disease outbreaks.

(2) We will develop trainable learning algorithms that can distinguish factual assertions from subjective (non-factual) assertions, identify beliefs that are held by an entity, and assess the intensity, polarity, and motivation and attitude types of those beliefs.

(3) We will create methods for understanding event and belief progressions over time.

CERATOPS is a University Affiliate Center (UAC) to the Discrete Sciences Institute (fact sheet). The project is funded by the Department of Homeland Security as part of the UAC program to fund basic research and education, and to foster research collaborations among universities and the National Laboratories.

 
 

 

NEWS

DHS Newsletter features student research at University Of Pittsburgh
October  2, 2007

Story by Pascale Santi in the Sciences section of Le Monde
 November 26, 2006

 
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