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Wrap-up

Wrap-up. Dr. John D. Prange AQUAINT Program Manager jprange@nsa.gov 301-688-7092 http://www.ic-arda.org. Administrative. Deadline of Revised Briefings / Papers / Charts Friday 21 June 2002 ARDA will cut and distribute final workshop CD to all registered workshop participants

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  1. Wrap-up Dr. John D. Prange AQUAINT Program Manager jprange@nsa.gov 301-688-7092 http://www.ic-arda.org

  2. Administrative • Deadline of Revised Briefings / Papers / Charts • Friday 21 June 2002 • ARDA will cut and distribute final workshop CD to all registered workshop participants • Email files:Paul Matthews: pmmatth@nsa.gov • Update information on “List of Attendees” • Registration Desk • Email updates: Paul Matthews: pmmatth@nsa.gov • Government Attendees: • Tax Exempt Form available at registration desk when you are checking out • Must pay bill with your government issued credit card

  3. AQUAINT:Newly Acquired Data Resources • Additional TREC Newspaper/Newswire Collection • Newly assembled collection of English newswire text that spans the period from June, 1998 through September 2000, inclusive. • Drawn from available sources: New York Times newswire, Associated Press Wordstream English newswire, and others. • Collection should include at least 3 gigabytes of data, to be published in compressed form on a set of 2 CD-ROMs • Will be available through NIST for AQUAINT Program and TREC Program Evaluation participants and through LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium) for all others

  4. Acquiring AQUAINT TREC Data • Project PI should send email to Ellen Voorhees, NIST with cc to John Prange, ARDA requesting this data set. • ellen.voorhees@nist.gov • jprange@nsa.gov • Ellen Voorhees will email you a Data Rights/Use Form that Project PI executes and return completed form to NIST via postal mail or Fax form to number provided by Ellen. • Ellen sends AQUAINT TREC Data CD’s to Project PI

  5. Acquiring CNS Data • Contract with CNS is being process • Once contract is in place, set of data will be released by CNS to the AQUAINT Program • Some reformatting of the auxiliary resources will be needed • CD’s will be cut • Release procedures will be published to all AQUAINT Program PI’s – Anticipate that they will be similar to that of the AQUAINT TREC Data • Anticipate that contract with CNS will be awarded during next 6-8 weeks.

  6. Exemplar Intelligence Reporting Data • Requests have come up in several discussions to see/review samples of Intelligence Reporting Data • Internet site including information accumulated during the DoD Investigation of “Gulf War Illnesses” www.gulflink.osd.mil • Includes Intelligence reports • All information declassified and released by Presidential order

  7. Schedule of Future AQUAINT Program Phase I Workshops • Phase I 12-Month Workshop 3-5 December 2002 (Tues-Thurs) (REVISED DATES) Crystal City Marriott 1999 Jefferson Davis Highway Arlington, VA 22202 • Phase I 18-Month Workshop 10-12 June 2003 (Tues-Thurs) Hotel TBD San Diego, CA • Phase I 24-Month Workshop Week of 1-5 December 2003 NIST Gaithersburg, MD

  8. External Question Answering Workshops • Mining Answers from Texts and Knowledge Bases Workshop • AAAI Spring Symposium, 25-27 March 2002 • Sanda Harabagiu, SMU & Vinay Chaudhri, SRI; Workshop Co-Chairs • http://www.cs.utdallas.edu/~sanda/stanford.html • Workshop on Question Answering: Strategy and Resources • LREC-2002; 28 May 2002 • Mark Maybury, MITRE; Workshop Chair • http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec-2002 • Workshop on New Directions in Question Answering • AAAI Spring Symposium, 24-26 March 2003 • Mark Maybury, MITRE; Workshop Chair • http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/spring-symposia.html

  9. Related External Conferences • HLT (Human Language Technology) Conferences • Sponsored by NAACL & Government Funders DARPA, NSF, and ARDA; SIGIR and ISCA represented on HLT Advisory Committee • HLT-2002 San Diego, CA 24-27 March 2002 http://www.hlt2002.org • HLT-2003 Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 31 May - 4 June 2003 http://www.hlt03.org • Text REtrieval Conferences (TREC) Question Answering (QA) Track • TREC managed by NIST; Co-Sponsored by DARPA and ARDA • TREC-2002 NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 19-22 November 2002 QA Track: Main Task; List Task; Context Task http://trec.nist.gov

  10. What to look for in next 6 Months • Sustaining interaction and involvement of analysts • Continuing encouragement for self-organized interactions within AQUAINT community • Establishing mechanism for soliciting, receiving and distributing shareable resources • Increased emphasis on test bed • Establishing and running multiple pilot AQUAINT evaluations + continued planning on others • Begin exploration of ways to investigate, study, evaluate more human factors, usability elements associated with AQUAINT systems/components

  11. Thank You • ARDA Staff . . . • For all of the behind the scenes work • Especially Paul Matthews and Susan Martin • Kelcy Allwein & the Assembled Team of Analysts . . . • For the AQUAINT Scenario Breakout Sessions • Donna Harman, Ellen Voorhees, Jean Scholtz . . . • For all their efforts on AQUAINT Evaluation • AQUAINT Contractors & Other Presenters . . . • Excellent Briefings • Excellent Summary Write-ups • Great Demos and Posters • External Guests . . . • Your Active Participation has had a positive impact

  12. Good-Bye Safe Travels Home

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