Research and New Venture Spring Showcase

The Research and New Venture Showcase provides a forum for the presentation of cutting edge science and later stage projects developed within the UT system and new venture startups looking for support and funding. Each showcase will be organized around a particular technology theme, with half of the program devoted to presentations by researchers and half to presentations by new venture startups. The forum is open to UT system faculty and researchers, and selected early stage investors, venture funding firms, service providers and businesses.

Technologies for Understanding Human Language

January 23, 2009

8:00a.am. to 4:00p.m.

TI Auditorium

Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas



This event is being held to build a bridge between on-going research at UTD in the area of language and speech understanding and the needs in industry. You are invited to attend this event to learn more about the outstanding research done at UTD and to hear about current needs from leaders in industry. You will also have a chance to meet the faculty and graduate students and talk to them about their research.

Program Outline

8:00 Registration/Coffee  
8:30 Introduction/Welcome Dr. Joseph C. Picken, Executive Director, IIE
8:40 to 9:10 Overview of Human Language Processing Research and Industry Needs Dr. Dan Moldovan & Mr. Donald Kretz, Raytheon, Principal Software Engineer
9:10 to 9:15 UTD Education Programs in Speech & Language Technology Dr. John Hansen
9:15 to 9:45 Information Extraction Dr. Ng & Dr. Moldovan
9:45 to 10:15 Discourse & Semantics Dr. Golden, Hatzivassiloglou & Harabagiu
10:15 to 10:30 Break  
10:30 to 11:00 Question Answering Dr. Harabagiu & Dr. Hatzivassiloglou
11:00 to 11:30 Speech Dr. Liu, Dr. Hansen & Dr. Rajasekaren
11:30  to 12Noon Applications in Biology & Health Dr. Hatzivassiloglou, Dr. Harabagiu, Dr. Liu & Dr. Loizou
12Noon to 1:00 Lunch  
1:00 to 2:15 Technologies for Understanding Human Language--Panel Discussion Panelists:
Dr. Micahael Kashner, VA Medical Center
Dr. Vishu Viswanathan, TI
Skip Cave, Intervoice
Kip Heuertz, Opus Research
Srik Soogoor, CEO Visvo
Scott Streit, IARPA
Jeff Buchmiller, EDS, an HP Company
2:15 to 2:20 Introduce Post Docs, PhDs and MS students  
2:20 PhD/MS student's Posters & Networking Reception  

 

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