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Boston, Massachusetts, April 28-29, 2008

Program

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  Monday April 28  

Charles Clarke – Day One Opening Talk
University of Waterloo, Canada
XML Retrieval: Problems and Potential 

Stephen E. Arnold
AIT, Kentucky
Beyond Search: Big Money and User Dissatisfaction as Catalysts for Next-Generation Search Solutions 

§ Exhibitor Product Highlights: Attivio / Groxis  

Steven Forth and Amelia Newbury
Monitor Group, Massachusetts
Search as a Mode of Learning: Requirements for Next Generation Search Systems  

Spencer Shearer
Exalead, USA
The Next Big Thing in Search: Hybrid/Vertical Search

Roger Bradford
Agilex Technologies, Virginia
Semantic Retrieval: Making the Computer do the Heavy Lifting  

Nigel Hamilton
Trexy, UK
Search Trails - Back to the Future

George Chitouras
Business Objects, California
Using Information Retrieval and NLP techniques to drive Business Intelligence

§ Exhibitor Product Highlights: Northern Light / Trexy

Sam Chapman
University of Sheffield, UK
Combining Semantics and Keyword Approaches to Enable Flexible Enterprise Search  

Jeff Fried
FAST Search & Transfer, Massachusetts
The Next Step in the Confluence of Search and Business Intelligence

Pascal Coupet
TEMIS, Philadelphia
Better Annotations for Text Mining: Using a Knowledge Server

  Tuesday April 29  

Jason R. Baron – Day Two Opening Talk
Director of Litigation, National Archives and Records Adminstration, D.C.
Searching for the Good Lawyer: Emerging Best Practices In The Use of Search and Information Retrieval Methods in E-Discovery    

Marcelline Saunders
Groxis, California
Powering Search Results with Visualization

Richard Brath
Oculus, Canada
Search, Sense-Making and Visual User Interfaces

Abe Lederman
Deep Web Technologies, New Mexico
Federated Search: True Enterprise Search

Terry Clift
ISYS Search Software, Colorado / Australia
Forget “One Size Fits All,” Search is an Iterative Process

Edwin Cooper
InQuira, California
Two Roads Diverged in a Google World  

Brad Allen
Siderean Software, California
Relational Navigation Brings Social Computing and Semantic Technology to the Enterprise  

Chris Cleveland
Dieselpoint, Illinois
Open Pipeline: An Open Architecture for Document Processing

Kelly Stirman
Mark Logic Corporation, California
Classification of XML: Leveraging Semantics and Syntax