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