Human Language Technology Conference

Join us for Basis Technology’s 9th Annual Human Language Technology Conference (HLTCon) on April 28, 2015 at the Westin Washington Dulles in Herndon, VA. This one day conference will delve into the latest advancements in Natural Language Processing and related technologies used in government, enterprise, and Big Data platforms.

The conference will gather directors, senior officials, linguists, technologists, product owners, and program managers whose mandate is shaped by getting the most out of HLT. Network with your peers across industry and government, listen to keynotes from senior leaders, and be immersed in HLT innovations by the field’s top minds.

Agenda

Virginia Tech EMBERS Predictive Analytics Program

•  Predicting civil unrest in Latin America
•  Multilingual event extraction from blogs and tweets

Highlight 7.0

• Standardizing named entities for the intelligence community
• Manage custom entity databases & integrate with common CAT tools

Customs and Border Protection

• Adding cross-lingual fuzzy name matching to CBP’s Targeting
• Analysis Systems Program Office (TASPO)

Cloudera Federal Solutions

• The art of the possible in unstructured text analytics on Hadoop
• Insider Threat, Entity Analytics and Open Source Intelligence

Advanced Text Analytics

• Sentiment, categorization and relationship extraction
• Migrating multilingual text analytics to the cloud

Digital Forensics

• Advancements in multi-device analysis to establish relationships
• New solutions for cybersecurity incident response

Agenda is subject to change. Exact times will be announced shortly.

We’ll post updates on Twitter using #HLTCon.