CONFERENCE AGENDA

Thursday, June 7, 2007
 
7:30
 Registration & Breakfast
8:30
 Welcome and Conference Overview
8:45
 Keynote Address - 9/11...More Than Five Years Later....
VADM Lowell (Jake) Jacoby, USN (Ret.)
Executive Vice President, National Solutions Business Group
CACI International
9:30
 Basis Technology’s Just-Right Solutions:
Bigger than a Component, Smaller than a Stovepipe
Benson Margulies, CTO
10:15
 Break
  Technology Track
(Oceanic Suite AB)		 Case Studies
(Meridian Suite C) 		Language Track
(Polaris Suite ABC)
10:30
 Different Script, Same Name: Tools for Matching & Translation

David Murgatroyd		 Transforming Legacy Information Systems

Jim Kerins, LexisNexis
& Benson Margulies 		Decoding Arabic Chat

Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D.
11:15

(Lunch setup)
 Extracting
Critical Entities for
IED Threat Detection
Manuel Aparicio,
Saffron Technology
& Steve Cohen
 Automated Analysis
of Arabic Chat

Charlotte Shabarekh
12:00
 Lunch Break
1:00
 Digital Forensics
Goes Multilingual

Brian Carrier, Ph.D.		 Guided Navigation
in Arabic

Jonas Celebiler, Endeca
& David Murgatroyd		 What’s in a
Persian Name?

Zina Saadi
1:45
 What Every Software Developer Needs to Know About Arabic

Bernard Greenberg
 Adding Linguistics to a Lucene-based Application

Chris Milner, Ph.D., SAIC
& Steven Cohen		 Tutorial:
Transliteration Assistant
and Knowledge Center

Mary Galvin &
Youssef Fayed
2:30
 Break
2:45

3:10
 The Web as a Corpus for Chinese Natural Language Processing

John O'Neil, Ph.D.		 The World View of NGA's Geographic Data
Peter Viechnicki, Ph.D., NGA
Exploiting GeoNames in Practical Applications (3:10)
Tina Lieu		 Tutorial: GeoScope and Arabic Editor

Mary Galvin &
Youssef Fayed
3:30
 Unicode 5.0 Essentials

Tina Lieu		 Multilingual
Deep Web Search

Duncan Witte, BrightPlanet &
Dirk Koechner		 A Profile of
Arabic Script Languages

Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D.
4:15
 Break
4:30
 Cross-Drive Analysis:
A New Approach to Media Exploitation

Simson Garfinkel, Ph.D. 		Digital Arabic Typography with Tasmeem

Thomas Milo		 Arabic, Farsi and Urdu Text Normalization
for NLP

Zina Saadi

* Conference agenda and schedule are subject to change.