Monday, January 23, 2006
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 8:45
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Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
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8:45 - 9:00
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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9:00 - 9:15
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Carey Priebe (Johns Hopkins University)
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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9:15 - 11:00
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Michael Trosset (College of William and Mary)
"Trading Spaces: Measures of Document Proximity and Methods for Embedding Them "
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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11:00 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Michael Berry (University of Tennessee)
""Text Mining Approaches for Email Surveillance""
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Sanjeev Khundapur (Johns Hopkins University)
"Document Representations for Topic-Adaptation in Statistical Language Modeling"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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4:30 - 5:30
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Ronald Coifman (Yale University)
"Diffusion geometries of digital document spaces, ontologies and knowledge building"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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5:30 - 7:00
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Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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John Lafferty (Carnegie-Mellon University)
"Topic Models I : Probabilistic models of documents and Topic models II: Structured and dynamic models"
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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David Blei (Princeton University)
"Topic Models I : Probabilistic models of documents and Topic models II: Structured and dynamic models"
Presentation (PDF File)
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11:30 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Eugene Charniak (Brown University)
"Recent Results in Parsing"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Frederick Jelinek (Johns Hopkins University)
"Language Modeling Experiments with Random Forests"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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4:30 - 5:30
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Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University)
"Bootstrapping Without the Boot"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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Damianos Karakos (Johns Hopkins University)
"Language Modeling with the Maximum Likelihood Set: Complexity Issues and the Back-off Formula"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Peter Jones (Yale University)
"Eigenfunction Local Coordinates and the Local Riemann Mapping Theorem "
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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11:30 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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David Marchette (Naval Surface Warfare Center)
"How Document Space is like an Elephant"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Michael Mahoney (Yahoo! Research)
"Data-driven dictionary definition for diverse document domains"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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4:30 - 5:30
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Andrew Tomkins (Yahoo! Research)
"Issue in accurate representation of documents"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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Thursday, January 26, 2006
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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Stephane Lafon (Google Inc.)
"Geometric clustering in kernel embedding spaces for document corpora organization"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Mauro Maggioni (Yale University)
"Multiscale Analysis of Graphs and Document Corpora"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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11:30 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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David Horn (Tel Aviv University)
"Unsupervised Learning of Natural Languages "
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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3:00 - 3:30
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Break
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3:30 - 4:30
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Nello Cristianini (UC Davis)
""Kernel Methods for Text Analysis""
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
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4:30 - 5:30
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Piotr Indyk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Algorithmic Applications of Low-Distortion Embeddings"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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Friday, January 27, 2006
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Morning Session
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8:00 - 9:00
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Continental Breakfast
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9:00 - 10:00
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John Conroy (IDA Center for Computing Sciences)
"Multi-Document Summary Space:What do People Agree is Important?"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
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10:00 - 10:30
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Break
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10:30 - 11:30
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Djoerd Hiemstra (Universiteit Twente)
"Expressing language modeling approaches as region algebra queries"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)
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11:30 - 2:00
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Lunch (on your own)
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Afternoon Session
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2:00 - 3:00
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Conclusion
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