The 30th IPP Symposium
Symposium on Information & Knowledge Management
November 14, 2002
Schedule and Brochure (pdf format)
- 8:30  BREAKFAST
- and Registration
- 4th Floor, CIT Building
- 4th Floor, CIT Building
- 9:00  Introduction and Overview
- Eli Upfal, CS Chairman
- Michael Black, IPP Director
- Thomas Hofmann, Host
- Michael Black, IPP Director
- 9:30  Practical Knowledge Representation for Efficient Information Access
- Bill Woods, Sun Microsystems
- 10:20 BREAK
- 10:40  The MERL SpokenQuery System
- Bhiksha Raj, Peter Wolf, MERL
- 11:30  Question Answering: Is More Always Better?
- Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
- 12:20  BUFFET LUNCH and Posters
- 1:20  Turning the Web Into a Knowledge Base: Information Extraction with Finite-State Models
- Andrew McCallum, UMass, Amherst
- 2:10  Model-Based Retrieval of Multimodal Information and Biosurveillance
- Chung-Sheng Li and John R. Smith, IBM Watson
- 3:00  BREAK
- 3:20  Search the Speech, Browse the Video
- Alex Cozzi, IBM Almaden
- 4:10  Multimedia Indexing
- Pedro Moreno, Hewlett-Packard
- 5:00 FINAL DISCUSSION & WRAP-UP
- 5:30  RECEPTION (5th Floor)