Text Mining

April 17 - 18, 2000

Content

Overview

Advisory:

Cosponsors: Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC), Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation, West Group

Organizers:

James Allan	University of Massachusetts
Vipin Kumar	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Paul Thompson	West Group

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.

Schedule

Monday, April 17, 2000

8:00 am - 8:30 am	Coffee and Registration	Keller 3-176
8:30 am - 8:45 am	Introduction Fred Dulles, Vipin Kumar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Willard Miller Jr.	Keller 3-180
8:45 am - 9:10 am	Riding the XML Wave Chris Wolff (West Group)
9:15 am - 9:40 am	Clustering Hypertext with Applications to Web Searching Dharmendra Modha (IBM)	Keller 3-180
9:45 am - 10:10 am	Principal Direction Partitioning in Text Data Mining Daniel Boley (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
10:15 am - 10:45 am	Break	Keller 3-176
10:45 am - 11:10 am	Level Search Filtering for IR Model Reduction Michael Berry (University of Tennessee)	Keller 3-180
11:15 am - 11:40 am	Matrix Approximations for Large, Sparse Text Data Using Clustering Inderjit Dhillon (The University of Texas at Austin)	Keller 3-180
11:45 am - 12:15 pm	Concept Indexing: A Fast Dimensionality Reduction Algorithm with Applications to Document Retrieval & Categorization George Karypis (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm	Untangling Text Data Mining Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley)	Keller 3-180
2:45 pm - 3:10 pm	Document Clustering: Is Hierarchical Clustering Really Better? Michael Steinbach (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Break	Keller 3-176
3:45 pm - 4:10 pm	Probabilistic Models for Information Retrieval and Text Mining Thomas Hofmann (Brown University)	Keller 3-180
4:15 pm - 4:40 pm	Online Text Classification with ATTICS David Lewis (AT&T Laboratories - Research)	Keller 3-180
4:45 pm - 5:10 pm	Statistical Models of Text: From Bags of Words to Structure Ralph Weischedel (Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) Laboratories, Inc.)	Keller 3-180
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm	IMA Tea	Lind 400

Tuesday, April 18, 2000

8:15 am	Coffee	Keller 3-176
8:30 am - 9:10 am	Prospecting for Novelty in Text Mining Jaime Carbonell (Carnegie-Mellon University)	Keller 3-180
9:15 am - 9:40 am	Information Visualization: Changing the Balance of Power Lucy Nowell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratories)	Keller 3-180
9:45 am - 10:10 am	Coreference Driven Link Analysis Through Visualization Breck Baldwin (Baldwin Language Technologies)	Keller 3-180
10:15 am - 10:45 am	Break	Keller 3-176
10:45 am - 11:10 am	Relational Knowledge Discovery: Applications to Text David Jensen (University of Massachusetts)	Keller 3-180
11:15 am - 11:45 am	Information Extraction Project Peter Jackson (West Group)	Keller 3-180
11:45 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 1:55 pm	Text Mining in Real Time Henry Lieberman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	Keller 3-180
2:00 pm - 2:25 pm	Centroid-Based Document Classification Algorithms: Analysis & Experimental Results Eui-Hong Han (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
2:30 pm - 3:25 pm	Panel Discussions	Keller 3-180
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Coffee	Keller 3-176

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Joan Bachenko		Linguistic Technologies, Inc.
Breck Baldwin		Baldwin Language Technologies
Arun Batchu	Graduate Program in Software	University of St. Thomas
Michael Berry	Department of Computer Science	University of Tennessee
Daniel Boley	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kelsey Bruso	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jaime Carbonell	Computer Science, Language Technologies. Inst.	Carnegie-Mellon University
Jack Conrad	Computer Science Research	West Group
Inderjit Dhillon	Department of Computer Science	The University of Texas at Austin
Yalchin Efendiev	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Levent Ertoz		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Sucharita Gopal	Department of Geography and Cen. for Remote Sensing	Boston University
Eui-Hong Han	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Takumi Hawa	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Marti Hearst	School of Information Management and Systems	University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Hofmann	Department of Computer Science	Brown University
Ivaylo Ilinkin		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Peter Jackson		West Group
Ravi Janardan	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
David Jensen	Department of Computer Science	University of Massachusetts
Moon-Gu Jeon	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yunjae Jung	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
George Karypis	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Krishna Kataria		Unisys Corporation
Sachin Kumar		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Vipin Kumar	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Paul Lareau	Information Management	3M
David Lewis		AT&T Laboratories - Research
Henry Lieberman	Media Research Lab	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Mccullah		West Group
David Mckoskey	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Sean Mcnee	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Dan Melamed		West Group
Karen Michael	Department of Software Engineering	University of St. Thomas
Dharmendra Modha		IBM
Isabelle Moulinier	Computer Science Research	West Group
Alexei Novikov		California Institute of Technology
Lucy Nowell	SAVI Group	Pacific Northwest National Laboratories
Bilehon Ostebon		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Haesun Park	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Chang Peng	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kashif Riaz	Capture and C	West Group
Quentin Ritchie	Worldwide Transportation	Unisys Corporation
Shrikanth Shankas		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Rajasekher Sistla	Department of Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Michael Steinbach	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Rick Steinheiser		Advanced Analytic Tools
Paul Thompson		West Group
Mark Wasson		LEXIS-NEXIS
Ralph Weischedel		Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) Laboratories, Inc.
Chris Wolff	VP of Publishing Technology	West Group
Shakila Xavier	Computer Science Research	West Group
Pusheng Zhang	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities