RTE7 - Ablation Tests

The following table lists the results of the ablation tests submitted by participants to RTE7 .
The exploratory effort about knowledge resources, started in RTE5 and extended to tools in RTE-6, was proposed also in RTE-7.

In the table below, the first column contains the specific resources which have been ablated.
The second column lists the Team Run in the form [name_of_the_Team][number_of_the_submitted_run].[submission_task] (e.g. BIU1.2way, Boeing3.3way).
The third column presents the normalized difference between the accuracy of the complete system run and the accuracy of the ablation run (i.e. the output of the complete system without the ablated resource), showing the impact of the resource on the performance of the system.
The fourth column contains a brief description of the specific usage of the resource. It is based on the information provided both in the "readme" files submitted together with the ablation tests and in the system reports published in the RTE7 proceedings.
If the ablated resource is highlighted in yellow, it is a tool, otherwise is a knowledge resource.

Participants are kindly invited to check if all the inserted information is correct and complete.

Ablated Component	Ablation Run	Resource impact - F1	Resource Usage Description
WordNet	BIU2_abl-1	-0.05	Without WordNet, which is used as a lexical rulebase resource
Direct	BIU2_abl-2	0.94	Without Bap (AKA "Direct"), which is used as a lexical rulebase resource
Wikipedia	BIU2_abl-3	1.56	Without Wikipedia, which is used as a lexical rulebase resource
Coreference resolver	BIU2_abl-4	0.69	Without any coreference resolution engine, instead of sing ArkRef to obtain coref information from the text, when preprocessing it
WordNet	DFKI_abl-1	-0.14	Features based on WordNet similarity measures (JWNL).
Named Entity Recognition	DFKI_abl-2	2.08	Features based on WordNet similarity measures (JWNL).
Wikipedia	FBK_irst3_abl-2	-2.64	Ablating wikipedia LSA similarity scores.
Named Entity Recognition	FBK_irst3_abl-3	-0.89	Ablating named entities matching module.
Paraphrase Table	FBK_irst3_abl-4	-1.43	Ablating paraphrase matching module. The paraphrases were extracted from parallel corpora.
Acronym List	IKOMA3_abl-1	-0.16	No acronyms of organization names extracted from the corpus.
CatVar	IKOMA3_abl-2	0.84	No CatVar.
WordNet	IKOMA3_abl-3	0.85	No WordNet.
WordNet	JU_CSE_TAC1_abl-1	9.81	WordNet Ablated
Named Entity Recognition	JU_CSE_TAC1_abl-2	7.97	NER Ablated
WordNet	SINAI1_abl-1	-0.12	Resource ablated: lexical similarity module based on Personalized Page Rank vectors over WordNet 3.0
Wikipedia	SJTU_CIT1_abl-1	8.89	we removed wikipedia resouce
VerbOcean	SJTU_CIT1_abl-2	5.93	we removed verbocern resource
WordNet	u_tokyo1_abl-1	0.83	Ablated resource is WordNet
WordNet	u_tokyo2_abl-2	0.64	Ablated resource is WordNet
WordNet	u_tokyo2_abl-3	0.99	Ablated resource is WordNet
UAIC Knowledge Resource	UAIC20112_abl-1	0	Ablation of the BK (acronym database and world knowledge component)
Named Entity Recognition	UAIC20112_abl-3	-8.29	Ablation of the NE resources.

Footnotes

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