| Wednesday, May 25 |
| 7:30–8:30am |
Continental Breakfast - Salon C Foyer |
| 8:00–8:30am |
Registration - Salon C Foyer |
| 8:30–9:00am |
Opening Remarks - Salon C
Dr. Thomas Potok, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Joseph Kielman, Department of Homeland Security
Overview of Department of Homeland Security Intelligence and
the Intelligence and Information Fusion (I2F) Program |
| 9:00–10:00am |
Nature of the problem
(speakers from DHS and IC)
|
| 10:00–10:30am |
Break - Salon C Foyer |
| 10:30–Noon |
Information Extraction/Data Mining - Salon C
Session chair: Dr. Sarah Taylor, Lockheed Martin Corp.
Dr. Ralph Weischedel, BBN Technologies
An Overview of Information Extraction
[position paper]
Dr. Sarah Taylor, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Information Extraction
[position paper]
Prof. Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts
Information Extraction: Future Research Directions &
Integration with Data Mining
|
| Noon–1:00pm |
Lunch - Salon B |
| 1:00–2:30pm |
Information Retrieval - Salon C
Session chair: Dr. Ellen Voorhees, National Institute
of Science and Technology
Dr. Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Science and Technology
TREC: Defining Benchmark Tasks to Advance the
State of the Art
[position paper]
Prof. James Allan, University of Massachusetts
State-of-the-art and Challenges in Information Retrieval
[position paper]
Dr. Jim Mayfield, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
DHS Research Challenges in Cross-Language Information Retrieval
[position paper] |
| 2:30–3:00pm |
Break - Salon C Foyer |
| 3:00–4:30pm |
Semantic Web - Salon C
Session chair: Prof. Timothy Finin, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
Prof. Timothy Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Knowledge Sharing on the Semantic Web
Prof. Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Patrick Hayes, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
|
| 4:30–5:00pm |
Break - Salon C Foyer |
| 5:00–6:00pm |
Poster/Demos - Madison Room (second level)
Reception/Cash Bar
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories
|
| Thursday, May 26 |
| 7:30–8:30am |
Continental Breakfast - Salon C Foyer |
| 8:00–8:30am |
Welcome - Salon C |
| 8:30–9:00am |
Opening Remarks
Dr. Steven Ashby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Advanced Scientific Computing for Homeland Security -
Introducing the Institute for Discrete Sciences
|
| 9:00–10:00am |
Machine Learning
Session chair: Dr. Kevin Boyack, Sandia National
Laboratories
Dr. Thomas Potok, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A Distributed Approach for Clustering of
Streaming Text Data
[position paper]
Prof. Tim Oates, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Machine Learning Meets Text Analysis - Again
|
| 10:00–10:30am |
Break - Salon C Foyer |
| 10:30–Noon |
Knowledge Representation - Salon C
Session chair: Dr. Terence Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory
Prof. Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University
Explanation: Enabling Next Generation Text Analysis
and Question Answering
Prof. Peter Chen, Louisiana State University
Is There a Common Thread to Unify Knowledge Representation
& Unify IT Research?
Prof. Richard Fikes, Stanford University
Key Roles for Knowledge Representation in Text Analysis
|
| Noon–1:00pm |
Lunch - Salon B |
| 1:00–2:30pm |
Natural Language Processing - Salon C
Session chair: Dr. Karin Verspoor,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corp.
Portability and Domain Models: Biology as a Case Study
for Information Extraction
[position paper]
Prof. Judith Klavans, University of Maryland
Distillation
[position paper]
Prof. Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Toward Text Meaning
|
| 2:30–3:00pm |
Break - Salon C Foyer |
| 3:00–4:30pm |
Panel Discussion – The
Future of Text Analysis - Salon C
Session chair: Dr. Thomas Potok,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Prof. Rohini Srihari, State University of New York–Buffalo
Information Extraction: State-of-the-Art and
Future Directions
[position paper]
Prof. Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University
The Future of Natural Language Processing
[position paper]
Mr. Robert Burleson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
|
| 4:30pm |
Concluding Remarks |
