Chair

• Arthur Spirling Harvard Government Department Faculty
• Peter Bol Harvard University
• Stuart M Shieber Harvard University

Description

As last year, the purpose of the conference will be to "a) provide   substantive researchers with a better idea of cutting edge methods for   natural language processing, b) provide technical researchers a  better  sense of the fundamental questions that drive much empirical  work in  the humanities, social sciences, law, and biomedical sciences  and c)  identify points of intersection between important substantive  problems  and open methodological problems."

We have over a dozen presenters already confirmed, from all over   Harvard, including FAS, the Medical school, the Law school and   Business School.  We will also see talks from colleagues in text   analysis at Carnegie-Mellon, Cornell and UMass Amherst.

Finally, we welcome several speakers from "industry" this year, with   representatives from both the intelligence community and Reuters,   engaged in pioneering text research efforts in their fields.

Information pertinent to the conference   follows below, while specifics (e.g. agenda, papers) will eventually   appear here:

http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/ptr/home

*By Invitation only.