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Basis Technology Government Users Conference

Westfields Marriott, Chantilly, VA
June 8–9, 2009

	Day One: June 8, 2009

7:30	Registration & Breakfast
8:30	Welcome and Conference Overview Carl Hoffman
8:35	Day One Keynote Address Finding the Ground Truth: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction in the Middle East Michael Totten, Foreign Correspondent and Foreign Policy Analyst
9:20	Basis Technology Update Carl Hoffman & Benson Margulies
10:10	Break
	Technology and Language Track	Partners and Solutions Track	Tutorials
10:35	The Modern-Day Chinese Puzzle: Automated Chinese Text Analysis Joe Ho	Enabling the National Harmony Database Kristen Summers, CACI & Benson Margulies	Guided Tour of the Rosette Linguistics Platform Ken Glidden
11:20	Break
11:25	The Names of Afghanistan: Understanding Pushto and Dari Names Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D.	Annotations: An Overview of Computer-Aided Document Mark-up Systems Tom Keenan, USA Department of Defense & Benson Margulies	Lucene and Solr for the Rest of the World Teruhiko Kurosaka
12:10	Lunch
13:25	New Developments in Name Analysis David Murgatroyd
14:15	It’s all in the Palm of Your Hand - an Overview of Cell Phone Forensics Heather Mahalik	Real-World Issues of Name Translation Rob Muir, Abraxas Corporation	Guided Tour of the Rosette Linguistics Platform (repeat) Ken Glidden
15:00	Break
15:25	You say “Jamāl”; he writes “Djamel”: Influences on Western Transliteration of Arabic Names Zina Saadi	Open Source Search Powered by Solr Erik Hatcher, Lucid Imagination & Teruhiko Kurosaka	Sit! Down! Extract! Teaching New Tricks to your Entity Extractor Brandon Mensing
16:10	Break
16:15	Making Your Name Search Cross-lingual David Murgatroyd	Crossing the Language Barrier: Translingual Search and Discovery Steve Cohen	Introduction to Transliteration Assistant Youssef Fayed & Mary Galvin
17:00	Evening Reception

	Day Two: June 9, 2009

8:00	Registration & Breakfast
8:55	Welcome and Conference Overview
9:00	Day Two Keynote Address Beyond Keyword Search: The Changing Face of Information Access Susan Feldman, IDC Research
9:50	Break
	Technology and Language Track	Partners and Solutions Track	Tutorials & Round Tables
10:15	One Language, Many Dialects: An Analysis of Arabic Dialects Zina Saadi	Activate Your Data with Active Intelligence Andrew McKay, Attivio & Joe Ho	Introduction to Transliteration Assistant (repeat) Youssef Fayed & Mary Galvin
11:00	Break
11:05	Global Anti-Money Laundering Compliance: Challenges and Solutions Steve Kearns	Indexing Human Language for the Warfighter Chris Biow, Mark Logic & Steve Cohen	Round Table Discussion TBD
11:50	Lunch
13:05	Extracting Searchable Text from Arabic PDFs Brian Carrier, Ph.D.	Information Access and Guided Summarization: Interational Support Michael Mohler, Endeca & Ken Glidden	Round Table Discussion Language-Based Computing: The Next Computing Wave Susan Feldman, IDC
13:50	Break
14:15	The World of Arabic Nicknames Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D.	Web Document Normalization and Preparation for Entity Extraction Steve Pederson & Will Bushee, BrightPlanet & Joel Ross	Round Table Discussion Media and Cell Phone Exploitation Brian Carrier, Ph.D. & Heather Mahalik
15:00	Break
15:05	Graphic proficiency in the Nastaliq lands: Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan Tom Milo	Drive Analysis in a Flash Simson Garfinkel Ph.D., Naval Postgraduate School	Round Table Discussion Next Steps for Names Robert Muir, Abraxas & David Murgatroyd
15:50	End of Sessions

* Conference agenda and schedule are subject to change.