Text mining is a new interdisciplinary field. It is related to data mining, a relatively mature technology, typically applied to the analysis of data stored in structured databases. Text mining seeks to apply some of the same types of analysis, such as knowledge discovery, or trend analysis, to unstructured textual data, that data mining applies to structured data. Text mining combines the disciplines of data mining, information extraction, information retrieval, text categorization, probabilistic modeling, linear algebra, machine learning, and computational linguistics to discover structure, patterns, and knowledge in large textual corpora.

Advances in computational resources and new statistical algorithms for text analysis have helped text mining develop as a field. This 2-day workshop is intended to bring together leading researchers in this new field, representing its various constituencies, including: computer science, mathematics and statistics, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence. There is not yet a consensus within the text mining community as to exactly what text mining is. One of the purposes of this workshop will be to help the community come closer to such a consensus. More generally, it will provide an opportunity to share research among the diverse groups represented at the workshop.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

MONDAY, April 17, 2000 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:00 am	Coffee and Registration	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
8:30 am	Willard Miller, Fred Dulles, and Vipin Kumar	Introduction
8:45 am	Chris Wolff West Group	Riding the XML Wave
9:15 am	Dharmendra Modha IBM Almaden	Clustering Hypertext with Applications to Web Searching talk (ps), talk(pdf), paper (ps), paper(pdf)
9:45 am	Daniel Boley University of Minnesota	Principal Direction Partitioning in Text Data Mining/ Talk pdf
10:15 am	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:45 am	Michael W. Berry University of Tennessee	Level Search Filtering for IR Model Reduction Slides   pdf      html (for Internet Browser only)
11:15 am	Inderjit S. Dhillon University of Texas, Austin	Matrix Approximations for Large, Sparse Text Data Using Clustering
11:45 am- 12:15 pm	George Karypis University of Minnesota	Concept Indexing: A Fast Dimensionality Reduction Algorithm with Applications to Document Retrieval & Categorization Talk pdf   html (for Internet Explorer browser only)
	Lunch
2:00 pm	Marti Hearst University of California Berkeley	Untangling Text Data Mining Talk  pdf  html (for Internet Explorer browser only)
2:45 pm	Michael Steinbach University of Minnesota	Document Clustering: Is Hierarchical Clustering Really Better?
3:15 pm	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:45 pm	Thomas Hofmann Brown University	Probabilistic Models for Information Retrieval and Text Mining
4:15 pm	David Lewis AT&T Labs	Online Text Classification with ATTICS
4:45 pm	Ralph Weischedel BBN Technologies	Statistical Models of Text: From Bags of Words to Structure Talk   pdf   html (for Internet Explore browser only)
5:15 pm	IMA Tea	IMA East, 400 Lind Hall A variety of appetizers and beverages will be served.
TUESDAY, April 18, 2000 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
8:15 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
8:30 am	Jaime Carbonell Carnegie Mellon University	Prospecting for Novelty in Text Mining
9:15 am	Lucy T. Nowell Battell/PNNL	Information Visualization: Changing the Balance of Power
9:45 am	Breck Baldwin Baldwin Language Technologies	Coreference Driven Link Analysis Through Visualization
10:15 am	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
10:45 am	David Jensen University of Massachusetts -Amherst	Relational Knowledge Discovery: Applications to Text
11:15 - 11:45 am	Peter Jackson West Group	Information Extraction Project
	Lunch
1:30 pm	Henry Lieberman MIT	Text Mining in Real Time
2:00 pm	Eui-Hong (Sam) Han University of Minnesota	Centroid-Based Document Classification Algorithms: Analysis & Experimental Results
2:30 pm	Panel Discussions
3:30 pm	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

as of 4/17/2000

Name	Department	Affiliation
Breck Baldwin	Institute for Research in Cognitive Science	University of Pennsylvania
Arun Batchu	Graduate Programs in Software	University of St. Thomas
Michael Berry	Computer Science	University of Tennessee
Daniel Boley	Comp. Sci. & Eng.	University of Minnesota
Kelsey Bruso	Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Jaime Carbonell	Computer Science, Language Technologies. Inst.	Carnegie Mellon University
Jack Conrad	Computer Science Research	West Group
Inderjit Dhillon	Computer Science	University of Texas at Austin
Suchartia Gopal	Geography & Cen. for Remote Sensing	Boston University
Eui-Hong Han	Computer Science & Engineering	University of Minnesota
Marti Hearst	School of Information Management & Systems	University of California - Berkeley
Thomas Hofmann	Computer Science	Brown University
Peter Jackson		West Group
Ravi Janardan	Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota
David Jensen	Computer Science	University of Massachusetts
Moon-Gu Jeon	Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Yunjae Jung	Computer Science	University of Minnesota
George Karypis	CS & E	University of Minnesota
Krishna Kataria	ISG Content Services	Unisys
Vipin Kumar	Computer Science/Engineering	University of Minnesota
Paul Lareau	Information Management	3M Corporation
David D. Lewis		AT&T Labs - Research
Henry Lieberman	Media Laboratory	MIT
Jayanth Majhi	Computer Science	Synopsys
Karen Michael	Software Engineering	University of St. Thomas
Dharmendra Modha		IBM Alamaden Research Center
Isabelle Moulinier	Computer Science Research	West Group
Lucy T. Nowell	SAVI Group-Synthesis, Analysis & Visualization	Battelle/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Haesun Park	Computer Science & Engr.	University of Minnesota
Chang Peng	Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota
William Pottenger	National Center for Supercomputing Applications	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kashif Riaz	Capture and C	West Group
Quentin Ritchi	Worldwide Transportation	Unisys
Michael Steinbach	Computer Science & Engineering	University of Minnesota
Rick Steinheiser		Advanced Analytic Tools
Paul Thompson		West Group
Mark Wasson		LEXIS-NEXIS
Ralph Weischedel		BBN Technologies
Chris Wolff	VP of Publishing Technology	West Group
Shakila Xavier	Computer Science Research	West Group

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