1. REACTION REACTION Workshop 2011.01.06 Directions Lisbon, PT and Austin, TX Mário J. Silva University of Lisbon, Portugal

2. REACTION Agenda 14:30 Welcome + Quick progress report and status summary (15 min) 14:45 Task leaders summarize ongoing activities 16:30 Break. 17:00 Technical Presentations – Tokenizing Micro-blogging Messages Using a Text Classification Approach (Gustavo Laboreiro)- POWER – Political Ontology for Web Entity Retrieval (Paula Carvalho) 18:00 Plans for Milestone1 ("REACTION Specification") + UTA- Portugal Annual Meeting + TREC2011 + Issues 18:25 Directions for next meeting/Next workshop 18:30 Meeting ends.

3. REACTION Next Two Challenges 1 st milestone: End of Month 6 – REACTION Specification 2 nd milestone: End of Month 12 – First toolset prototype (should to demo it at next Collaboratory)

4. REACTION Resources SAPO has setup Ponte, a large infra-structure for collecting, news, tweets, blogs – Issue: now they only have blogs and videos, they do not store news, would be nice to have news from Público – planning to collect comments to news LASIGE+LIACC have a corpus with Publico's articles on the 10 TV debates and associated comments (annotated at 20%) + a Sentiment lexicon for Portuguese (adjectives only) LASIGE contributing Geo-NET-PT 02 and its Yahoo! GeoPlanet Alignment

5. REACTION New Big Resource Público will give us 6 months of news + comments (plan: Aug2010 to Jan 2011) Sapo provides Blogs + Tweets + news

6. REACTION Joint Evaluations – which one? TREC 2011 – Entity Track, Microblog, crowdsourcing TAC 2011 (?) – Knowledge Base Population Track

7. REACTION Demo idea 1.Train political and geo entities recognizer 2.Automatically add links to online news texts to power/geonetPT+geoplanet individuals using recognizer 3.Visualization tool generates/pops-up infoboxes on user selected entities What else?

8. REACTION Tools Reaction tools – Which ones? External tools – Which ones?

9. REACTION Next Meetings When?