Developing efficient knowledge management systems

April 19–20 1999, Boston, Mass

Page last updated 14 August 2001.

This series of meetings originated in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1995. This inaugural meeting (part of an ASIDIC series) was transplanted to Bath in England (1996 and 1997) and then to Boston, Massachusetts (1998 and 1999). The Search Engines Meetings bring together commercial search engine developers, academics and corporate professionals to learn from each other. Infonortics, sponsor of meetings post-1995 with Ev Brenner, plans to continue the same success in Boston in 2000.

Presentations from the 1999 meeting in Boston can be viewed below where a link is indicated. It is hoped to include links to all presentations as soon as possible.
 
 

DAY I : Monday April 19 1999

09.00 Opening keynote

Ramana Rao (Inxight, Palo Alto, CA) 7 ± 2 Insights on achieving Effective Information Access

Session One: Updates and a twelve month perspective

Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Watch, US / England) Portalization and other search trends

Carol Tenopir  (University of Tennessee) Search realities faced by end users and professional searchers

Session Two: Today's search engines and beyond

Daniel Hoogterp (Retrieval Technologies, McLean, VA) Effective presentation and utilization of search techniques

Rick Kenny (Fulcrum Technologies, Ontario, Canada) Beyond document clustering: The knowledge impact statement

Gary Stock (Ingenius, Kalamazoo, MI) Automated change monitoring

Gary Culliss (Direct Hit, Wellesley Hills, MA) User popularity ranked search engines

Byron Dom (IBM, CA) Automatically finding the best pages on the World Wide Web (CLEVER)

Peter Tomassi (LookSmart, San Francisco, CA) Adding human intellect to search technology

Session Three: Panel discussion: Human v automated categorization and editing

Ev Brenner (New York, NY)- Chairman
James Callan (University of Massachusetts, MA)
Marc Krellenstein (Northern Light Technology, Cambridge, MA)
Dan Miller (Ask Jeeves, Berkeley, CA)

DAY II : Tuesday April 20 1999

Session Four: Updates and a twelve month perspective

Steve Arnold (AIT, Harrods Creek, KY) Review: The leading edge in search and retrieval software

Ellen Voorhees (NIST, Gaithersburg, MD) TREC update

Session Five: Search engines now and beyond

Intelligent Agents
John Snyder (Muscat, Cambridge, England) Practical issues behind intelligent agents

Text summarization
Therese Firmin, (Dept of Defense, Ft George G. Meade, MD) The TIPSTER/SUMMAC evaluation of automatic text summarization systems

Cross language searching
Elizabeth Liddy (TextWise, Syracuse, NY) A conceptual interlingua approach to cross-language retrieval.

Video search and retrieval
Armon Amir (IBM, Almaden, CA) CueVideo: Modular system for automatic indexing and browsing of video/audio

Speech recognition
Michael Witbrock (Lycos, Waltham, MA) Retrieval of spoken documents

Visualization
James A. Wise (Integral Visuals, Richland, WA) Information visualization in the new millennium: Emerging science or passing fashion?

Text mining
David Evans (Claritech, Pittsburgh, PA) Text mining - towards decision support