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Program Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center June 7, 2007

Technology Track Oceanic Suite AB Case Studies Meridian Suite C Language Track Polaris Suite ABC
7:30Registration and Breakfast
8:30Welcome 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
10:15Break
10:30 Different Script, Same Name: Tools for Matching and 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
12:00Lunch 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 Arabi 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
2:30Break
2:45 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.
4:15Break
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.