The JAIR paper written by Michael and Simone in 2007 on "Knowledge Derived from Wikipedia for Computing Semantic Relatedness" will receive the 2010 Honorable Mention for the 2010 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize! Here is the blurb.

Cai and Michael have an exciting paper on a global model for coreference resolution at COLING this year: End-to-End Coreference Resolution via Hypergraph Partitioning.

Viola has a paper on Detecting Vagueness in Two Languages and Two Domains at KONVENS 2010.

Cai and Michael have a paper on coreference resolution evaluation metrics at SIGdial '10: Evaluation Metrics for End-to-End Coreference Resolution Systems. The paper describes evaluation metrics which can deal with system mentions.

Our latest project is CoSyne: A project on Multi-lingual Content Synchronization with Wikis -- an ICT-STREP project funded by the European Commision. The project will start in March 2010. More news later!

We are building WikiNet -- a multi-lingual large scale ontology based on Wikipedia. Currently it contains approximately 3 million concepts and 20+ million relations extracted from the 20090703 version of Wikipedia. We also have a multi-lingual dictionary extracted from the Wiktionary (it contains only entries that have at least one translation).

WikiNet is described in our LREC paper.