Monday, October 01, 2007
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 8:45
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Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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8:45 - 9:00
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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9:00 - 10:00
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Peter Jones (Yale University)
"Spectral Methods for Knowledge Building: Theory and Open Problems"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Coffee Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Ran El-Yaniv (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
"Transductive Learning"
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11:30 - 1:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:00 - 2:00
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Eduard Hovy (University of Southern California (USC))
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2:00 - 2:30
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Break
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2:30 - 3:30
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David Ferrucci (IBM Watson Research Center)
"Semantic Search in QA: A critical look at our legacy in Automatic Question Answering"
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3:30 - 4:00
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Coffee Break
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4:00 - 5:00
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Anthony Davis (Comcast/Streamsage)
"Indexing and Searching Timed Media: The Role of Mutual Information Models."
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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9:00 - 10:00
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Hagit Shatkay (Queen’s University)
"Sweeping through the Biomedical Literature: An Information Retrieval Approach to Biomedical Text Mining"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Coffee Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Ronald Coifman (Yale University)
"Diffusion and inference geometries as a tool for data driven ontology/language building."
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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11:30 - 1:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:00 - 2:00
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Karin Verspoor (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"Exploiting contextual similarity for semantic prediction in the Biology domain"
Presentation (PDF File)
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2:00 - 2:30
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Break
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2:30 - 3:30
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Mark Meiss (Indiana University)
"Building Networks from Networks: Mining Network Data to Model User Behavior"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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3:30 - 4:00
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Coffee Break
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4:00 - 5:00
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Mark Manasse (Microsoft Research)
"Recent Advances in Minhashing"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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5:30 - 7:00
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Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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9:00 - 10:00
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To Be Announced
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10:00 - 10:30
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Coffee Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Tina Eliassi-Rad (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
"Collective Classification in Network Data"
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11:30 - 1:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:00 - 2:00
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David Blei (Princeton University)
"Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document Collections"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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2:00 - 2:30
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Break
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2:30 - 3:30
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Jim Thomas (Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories)
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
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3:30 - 4:00
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Coffee Break
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4:00 - 5:00
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Marius Pasca (Google Inc.)
"Knowledge Acquisition from Web Search Queries"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
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Thursday, October 04, 2007
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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9:00 - 10:00
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Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland)
"Beyond "Bag of Words": Towards a Framework for Conceptual Retrieval"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Coffee Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)
"Possibilities for Improving Information Search through Corpus Profiling"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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11:30 - 1:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:00 - 2:00
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Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina)
"Personalizing Information Search: Understanding Users and their Interests"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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2:00 - 2:30
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Coffee Break
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2:30 - 4:00
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Discussion Panel
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Friday, October 05, 2007
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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9:00 - 10:00
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Bill Dolan (Microsoft Research)
"Modeling semantic overlap for applications"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Coffee Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Dan Moldovan (University of Texas at Dallas)
"Towards the Automatic Construction of Semantically Rich Ontologies"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
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11:30 - 1:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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1:00 - 2:00
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Sanda Harabagiu (University of Texas at Dallas)
"Methods for Using Textual Entailment in Open-Domain Question Answering"
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