| Speaker |
Affiliation |
Presentation Title |
| Wednesday, May 25 |
|
Opening remarks |
| Thomas Potok |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Opening Remarks
|
| Joseph Kielman |
DHS TVTA |
Threat and Vulnerability Testing and Assessment (TVTA)
awaiting release form
|
|
The Nature of the Problem |
| Robert Burleson |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Nature of the Problem in a Counterterrorism Context
awaiting release form
|
| M. Quinton Congdon |
U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Center |
Text Analysis in the Department of Defense Intelligence Community
awaiting release form
|
| Joseph Kielman |
DHS TVTA |
Overview of Department of Homeland Security Intelligence and the
Intelligence and Information Fusion (I2F) Program
awaiting release form
|
|
Information Extraction/Data Mining |
| Ralph Weischedel |
BBN Technologies |
An Overview of Information Extraction
|
| Sarah Taylor |
Lockheed Martin Corporation |
Applications of Information Extraction-Today and Tomorrow
|
| Andrew McCallum |
University of Massachusetts |
Information Extraction: Future Research Directions and Integration with Data Mining
|
|
Information Retrieval |
| Ellen Voorhees |
National Institute of Science and Technology TREC |
TREC: Defining Benchmark Tasks to Advance the State of the Art
|
| James Allan |
University of Massachusetts |
State-of-the-art and Challenges in Information Retrieval
|
| Jim Mayfield |
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory |
Research Challenges in Cross-Language Retrieval
|
|
Semantic Web |
| Timothy Finin |
University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
Knowledge Sharing on the Semantic Web
|
| Patrick Hayes |
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition |
Semantic Web
|
| Katia Sycara |
Carnegie Mellon University |
Semantic Knowledge for Text Mining
|
| Thursday, May 26 |
|
Opening Remarks |
| Steven Ashby |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Advanced Scientific Computing for Homeland Security
|
|
Machine Learning |
| Thomas Potok |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
A Multi-Agent Architecture for Streaming Text Analysis
|
| Tim Oates |
University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
Machine Learning Meets Text Analysis
|
|
Knowledge Representation |
| Deborah McGuinness |
Stanford University |
Explanation: Enabling Next Generation Text Analysis and Question Answering
|
| Peter Chen |
Louisiana State University |
Is There a Common Thread to Unify Knowledge Representation and IT Research?
|
| Richard Fikes |
Stanford University |
Key Roles for Knowledge Representation in Text Analysis
|
|
Natural Language Processing |
| Lynette Hirschman |
MITRE Corp. |
Portability and Domain Models: Biology as a Case Study for Information Extraction
|
| Judith Klavans |
University of Maryland |
Distillation
|
| Sergei Nirenburg |
University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
Toward Text Meaning
|
|
Panel Discussion |
| Rohini Srihari |
State University of New York–Buffalo |
State-of-the-Art and Future Directions
|
| Elizabeth Liddy |
Syracuse University |
The Future of Natural Language Processing
|
| Robert Burleson |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
ADVISE Architecture and Text Extraction
awaiting release form
|
