Human Language Technology (HLT) cannot be “future proofed” because the target is organic, ever changing, human language. Like a weather forecast, a static model is only accurate at a point in time. What we need is the NLP equivalent of a weather app pulling in streaming live weather data. Adaptation is the future of HLT: continuously learning models that are quickly spun up with an annotation effort to “crawl”; then ada...

The 10th Annual Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (OSDFCon) will be held October 15-17, 2019 in Herndon, VA. This event allows attendees to learn about new software and meet the developers. Oct 15: Workshops: A series of 3-hour in-depth workshops (need separate ticket to attend) Oct 16: Conference: A full-day of 35-minute talks focused exclusively on open source digital forensics tools Free for government attendees through Oct. 5 Oct 17...

The 9th Annual Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (OSDFCon) will be held October 16-18, 2018 in Herndon, VA. This event allows attendees to learn about new software and meet the developers. Oct 16: A series of 3-hour in-depth workshops (to be announced in July)Oct 17: One full day of 35 minute talks focused exclusively on open source digital forensics tools (**free for government attendees**)Oct 18: Autopsy Training Here is what you can...

The 8th Annual Open Source Digital Forensics Conference (OSDFCon) will be held on October17, 2017. It's a single day event, focused exclusively on open source digital forensics tools, surrounded by one day of workshops, and two days of training. OSDFCon brings together developers and users within the digital forensics and incident response communities, and has become an important part of the open source ecosystem in digital forensics. OSDFCon...

HLTCon gathers together senior officials, expert linguists, technologists, and vendors across industry and government to discuss how innovations in HLT can be applied to today’s most vital intelligence and security requirements. This year, the 11th annual HLTCon will emphasize the exploitation of textual data to power anticipatory intelligence, allowing decision makers to predict and prepare for globally significant events. Join us at th...