Contact Us

For more information on Basis Technology’s Users Conference:

Miryon Pak +1 (617) 386-2090 conference@basistech.com

Held in conjunction with

The Sleuth Kit and Open Source Digital Forensics Conference 2011 (6/14/2011)

Open Source Search Conference 2011 (6/15/2011)

Program Westfields Marriott, Chantilly, VA June 8–9, 2010

Day One: Tuesday, June 8, 2010

	Track 1 Lincoln Forum	Track 2 Monroe Room	Track 3 Madison Room
7:30	Registration and Breakfast
8:30	Welcome and Conference Overview Carl Hoffman
8:35	Morning Keynote Address Making the Case for Human Language Technology Dan Scott, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
9:20	Plenary Rapid Information Triage: A Practical Approach Steve Kearns
	Break
10:30	Enabling the National Harmony Database Kristin Summers, CACI and Benson Margulies	Best Practices for Making Your Name Search Cross-Lingual David Murgatroyd	It’s All in the Palm of Your Hand: An Overview of Cell Phone and iPhone Forensics Heather Mahalik
	Break
11:25	A Gentle Introduction to Entity Extraction Brandon Mensing	Coral Reef: Cellular Network Analysis and Exploitation in the Field Andrew Walker, Berico Technologies and Benson Margulies	Tutorial: Multilingual Problem Resolution with Transliteration Assistant Youssef Fayed and Brian Roberson
12:10	Lunch
13:25	Afternoon Keynote Address Detention in U.S History: Looking Backwards for Answers Going Forward Ahmed Qureshi, Harbinger Technologies Group
	Break
14:20	Bringing Human Language Technology to the Warfighter Carl Hoffman	The Warfighter’s Intelligence Dashboard: USAIC Tube Jim Nolan, Decisive Analytics and Bill Ray	Tracking Criminals Turn-By-Turn: GPS Forensics Ben LeMere
	Break
15:25	More than a Name: Evidence for Identity Resolution David Murgatroyd	Tutorial: Sit! Down! Extract! Teaching New Tricks to your Entity Extractor Brandon Mensing	You Say “Jamāl,” He Writes “Djamel”: Influences on Western Transliteration of Arabic Names Zina Saadi
	Break
16:15	The Names of Afghanistan: Understanding Pashto and Dari Names Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D.	The Modern-Day Chinese Puzzle: Automated Chinese Text Analysis Joe Ho	Language Identification: The First Step in Processing Intelligence Nobuo Otsuka
17:00	Evening Reception

Day Two: Wednesday, June 9, 2010

	Track 1 Franklin Room	Track 2 Monroe Room	Track 3 Madison Room
8:00	Registration and Breakfast
8:30	Joint Welcome: Government Users Conference and The Sleuth Kit and Open Source Digital Forensics Conference Carl Hoffman
8:55	Tutorial: Multilingual Problem Resolution with Transliteration Assistant (repeat) Youssef Fayed and Brian Roberson	Cost-Effective Multilingual Search Using Rosette and Apache Solr Frank Calderon, Lucid Imagination and Steve Cohen	Afghanistan’s Language and Culture: A Challenge for Security (Part 1 of 2) Steve Kearns and Zina Saadi
	Break
10:00	Speech Recognition and Us: So How Did We Get Here, and Where Are We, Anyway? Jordan Cohen, Spelamode Consulting	Implementing Social Media Search with Mark Logic Server Chris Biow, MarkLogic and Benson Margulie	Afghanistan’s Language and Culture: A Challenge for Security (Part 2 of 2) Steve Kearns and Zina Saadi
	Break
11:05	“Ask the Experts” Roundtable Discussion: Entity Extraction Benson Margulies, Brandon Mensing	Thai, the Tiger of Text Analysis Rattima Nitisaroj	How Can Transliteration Assistant Assist You More? David Murgatroyd
11:50	Lunch
13:05	Plenary Basis Technology Update: Rosette 7 Steve Kearns
	Break
14:00	“Ask the Experts” Roundtable Discussion: Open Source Software and OSINT Benson Margulies, Joel Ross, David Murgatroyd	Decoding Arabic Chat Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D.	Tutorial: Sit! Down! Extract! Teaching New Tricks to your Entity Extractor (repeat) Brandon Mensing
	Break
14:55	“Ask the Experts” Roundtable Discussion: Management Roundtable Carl Hoffman, Steve Cohen, Steve Kearns	Linguistics 101: The Conceptual Base of Natural Language Processing Zina Saadi	Tell Tale: What a Hill Can Reveal About Writing Thomas Milo
15:40	Finish

*Conference agenda and schedule are subject to change.

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