Basis Technology Government Users Conference

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Users Conference:
Stacy Gianakura
617-386-2050
conference@basistech.com

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Day One Schedule - Day Two Schedule - List of Round Table Discussions

CONFERENCE AGENDA

DAY ONE: Tuesday, May 20, 2008

7:30	Registration & Breakfast
8:30	Keynote Address: Stephanie O’Sullivan Director for Science and Technology Central Intelligence Agency
9:20	New Developments from Basis Technology Carl Hoffman, CEO & Benson Margulies, CTO
10:10	20-minute break
	Track 1	Track 2
10:30	Multilingual Search in Lucene Marc Krellenstein, Lucid Imagination Steve Cohen, Basis Technology	Linguistic Considerations of Identity Resolution David Murgatroyd
	5-minute break
11:20	Actionable Intelligence from Semantic Analysis David Ihrie, Semandex Networks Steve Cohen, Basis Technology	Real-World Issues of Name Translation Robert Muir, Abraxas Corporation
12:05	Lunch
1:20	Everything You've Ever Needed To Do With Names David Murgatroyd
2:05	5-minute break
2:10	Demystifying Entity Extraction Quality Charlotte Shabarekh	A Linguistic Profile of the Persian Language and Dialects Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D.
2:55	20-minute break
3:15	Guided Navigation in Arabic Brian Frutchey, Endeca & David Murgatroyd, Basis Technology	Processing the Mosaic of Chinese Dialects Benjamin Swanson
4:00	5-minute break
4:05	Machine Translation & Digital Forensics: R&D Initiatives at Basis Technology Brian Carrier, Ph.D. Scott Miller, Ph.D.	The Next-Generation of Arabic Search: Linguistically Intelligent Arabic Retrieval Zina Saadi
5:00 - 7:00	Networking Reception

* Conference agenda and schedule are subject to change.

DAY TWO: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 Tutorials and Roundtable Discussions

7:30	Registration & Breakfast
8:30	Day #2 Welcome and Overview Carl Hoffman, CEO
	Track 1	Track 2	Roundtable discussions
8:45	Building Applications with Rosette Name Indexer and Rosette Name Translator Benson Margulies	Hands-on Tutorial: Arabic Editor & GeoScope Youssef Fayed & Tina Lieu	Entity & Content Extraction Moderators: Scott Miller, Charlotte Shabarekh
9:40	Fingerprinting Hard Drives: Automated Document and Media Exploitation Simson Garfinkel, Ph.D.		Tools for Translators and Linguists; Transliteration Assistant Moderator: Carl Hoffman
10:30	15-minute break
10:45	Revealing Critical Links In Complex Data Dan Haught, FMS Advanced Systems Group John Saling, Basis Technology	Hands-on Tutorial: Transliteration Assistant & Knowledge Center Youssef Fayed & Tina Lieu	Name and Identity Resolution Moderators: Keith Miller, Benson Margulies
11:40	Beyond the Search Bar: From Discovery to Active Intelligence Sid Probstein, Attivio & Benson Margulies, Basis Technology		DOMEX/CELLEX Moderators: Carl Hoffman, Simson Garfinkel
12:30	Lunch served

Round Table Discussions

Tools for Linguists and Translators - What's the best way to cope with the shortage of qualified linguists? Can low-tech or medium-tech software solutions be applied to boost their productivity?

Transliteration Assistant - An opportunity for Transliteration Assistant "power users" to meet with the developers to discuss new directions for this product. Discuss the relative priorities of different languages, entity types, transliteration standards, and other automatic transliteration capabilities.
Name and Identity Resolution- What is your organization's requirements for name and identity resolution? How are you approaching the problem of extracting and resolving foreign names against watch lists?
Entity and Content Extraction - Are you satisfied with the performance of your current entity extractor? Do you have metrics for measuring extraction accuracy? Have you explored running multiple extractors in parallel? Sit down with the developers of the Rosette Entity Extractor and trade ideas.
Document/Media and Cellphone Exploitation (DOMEX/CELLEX) -Share problems and experiences with other DOMEX and CELLEX specialists. Learn "best practices" in this rapidly evolving area.