Join your fellow language and technology professionals at Basis Technology’s Government Users Conference and Workshop. We have assembled a full day of talks, demonstrations, and tutorials showcasing the state-of-the-art in Human Language Technology (HLT). This is a unique opportunity to meet the experts, network with your peers, acquire new skills, and plug-in to the fast-growing Basis Technology user community.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

• Keynote Address — Learn from Dr. Janet Breslin-Smith, Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College on the implications and and explanations for America’s resistance to language and culture learning.
  
  
• Plenary Talk — Learn from Basis Technology’s CTO how linguistic enhancements to National Harmony provide a new framework for large-scale multilingual DOCEX, and how these innovations can serve as a model for future systems throughout the USG.
  
  
• Specialized Tracks — Conference content has been organized into two tracks, one with a emphasis on language and the other with emphasis on technology. Take advantage of tutorials on Unicode, multilingual system design, digital forensics, and desktop tools for translators and analysts. Explore complex linguistic topics in depth, including Arabic name-matching, Chinese segmentation, and Persian online chat. Get a first-hand look at results from real-world, deployed HLT systems for information retrieval, document triage, media exploitation, and digital forensics.
  
  
• Networking Opportunities — Meet fellow system architects, software engineers, computational linguists, and program managers who are building the next generation of HLT systems. Learn what approaches are working, and what’s not.
  
  
• Training Sessions — Gain “hands on” experience with Basis Technology products, and bring home tools that will make a difference in your job, right now.
  
  
• Feedback Sessions — Your opportunity to “meet the developers”, get a sneak peek at what’s in store for later this year, and give your input on future product directions.
  

Whether you are an intelligence analyst, a military linguist, a system architect, or an HLT practitioner, this event will provide you with the information you need to understand and take advantage of the latest developments in multilingual software technology.

This conference is organized for the benefit of and provided at no charge to employees of the U.S. Government. Individuals outside the U.S. Government may also attend, however a contractor participation fee of $495 per person will apply. Contractor registrations received before May 20 will receive a $100 discount.