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Workshop I: Dynamic Searches and Knowledge Building
October 1 - 5, 2007
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Organizing Committee
Karin Verspoor, Chair
(Los Alamos National Laboratory, CCS-3)
Jennifer Chu-Carroll
(IBM Watson Research Center)
Ronald Coifman
(Yale University)
Carey Priebe
(Johns Hopkins University, Center for Imaging Science/Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
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Scientific Background
This workshop will explore the interactions between search and knowledge. We are interested in exploring how existing or
acquired knowledge – about a user, a domain, or the world – can be used to improve the search for information, and in turn
how search can be used to improve knowledge models. We wish to explore mathematical techniques that exploit semantic
structures (e.g. description logics, ontologies, or semantic graphs) to drive statistical or logical inference for search
query understanding or knowledge building.
Topics of interest include:
- Natural Language Question Answering
- User-tailored search
- Textual entailment
- Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
- Analysis and organization of search results
- Measures of document or semantic similarity
- Multi-media data mining and semantic annotation, including images, video and audio
- Applications integrating search and knowledge (e.g. biomedicine, customer relationship management)
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Invited Speakers
David Blei
(Princeton University)
Ronald Coifman
(Yale University)
Anthony Davis
(Comcast/Streamsage)
Bill Dolan
(Microsoft Research)
Tina Eliassi-Rad
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Ran El-Yaniv
(Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
David Ferrucci
(IBM Watson Research Center)
Sanda Harabagiu
(University of Texas at Dallas)
Eduard Hovy
(University of Southern California (USC))
Peter Jones
(Yale University)
Diane Kelly
(University of North Carolina)
Jimmy Lin
(University of Maryland)
Mauro Maggioni
(Duke University)
Mark Manasse
(Microsoft Research)
Mark Meiss
(Indiana University)
Dan Moldovan
(University of Texas at Dallas)
Marius Pasca
(Google Inc.)
Hagit Shatkay
(Queen’s University)
Jim Thomas
(Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories)
Karin Verspoor
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Bonnie Webber
(University of Edinburgh)
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Contact Us:
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Attn: SEWS1
460 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles CA 90095-7121
Phone: 310 825-4755
Fax: 310 825-4756
Email: 
Website:
http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sews1/
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