Program The Inn & Conference Center, College Park, MD May 20–21, 2008

Day One: Tuesday, May 20, 2008

	Track 1	Track 2
7:30	Registration and 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	Break
10:30	Multilingual Search in Lucene Marc Krellenstein, Lucid Imagination & Steve Cohen, Basis Technology	Linguistic Considerations of Identity Resolution David Murgatroyd
11:15	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	Break
2:10	Demystifying Entity Extraction Quality Charlotte Shabarekh	A Linguistic Profile of the Persian Language and Dialects Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D.
2:55	Break
3:15	Guided Navigation in Arabic Brian Frutchey, Endeca & David Murgatroyd	Processing the Mosaic of Chinese Dialects Benjamin Swanson
4:00	Break
4:05	Machine Translation and Digital Forensics: R&D Initiatives at Basis Technology Scott Miller, Ph.D. & Brian Carrier, Ph.D.	The Next Generation of Arabic Search: Linguistically Intelligent Retrieval Zina Saadi
5:00 - 7:00	Networking Reception

	Track 1	Track 2	Roundtable Discussions
7:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30	Day #2 Welcome and Overview Carl Hoffman, CEO
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.	Arabic Editor & Geoscope (continued)	Tools for Translators and Linguists; Transliteration Assistant Moderator: Carl Hoffman
10:30	Break
10:45	Revealing Critical Links In Complex Data Dan Haught, 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, CTO, Attivio & Benson Margulies, Basis Technology	Transliteration Assistant & Knowledge Center (continued)	DOMEX/CELLEX Moderators: Carl Hoffman, Simson Garfinkel
12:30	Lunch

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) — hare problems and experiences with other DOMEX and CELLEX specialists. Learn “best practices” in this rapidly evolving area.

*Conference agenda and schedule are subject to change.