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Basis Technology Government Users Conference

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

  Day One: Tuesday, June 8, 2010
 
Time 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 Pushto 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
 
Time 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 Margulies		 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
14:45 Break
14:55 “Ask the Experts” Roundtable Discussion: Management Round Table
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.