Workshop on Operational Text Classification 2001

Presentations

The following is the list of talks that were scheduled to be presented at OTC2001.  (Some speakers were not able to attend, due to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.)   To encourage frank sharing of experiences, no published proceedings were produced for the workshop.  However, a subset of the speakers agreed to make their paper from the workshop notes and/or their slides available, and these are linked below.  Please direct requests for papers not included here to the appropriate author.  

An Operational System for Detecting and Tracking Opinions in On-line Discussions (Paper - PDF)

       Richard M. Tong (Tarragon Consulting)

 Text Classification at Ford Motor Company

      Thomas A. Montgomery, Byran R. Goodman (Ford Research Laboratory)

Automatic Concept Indexing and Classification for Improved Retrieval in the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (Paper - HTML; Slides - PowerPoint)

        Tamas Doszkocs, Hua Florence Chang, Alan Aronson, Phillip Thomas (National Library of Medicine) 

        Dean Wilder (MSD, Inc.) 

        Antonio Zamora (Consultant)

A Multi-classifier for American Law Reports

        Khalid Al-Kofahi, Alex Tyrrell, Arun Vachher, Tim Travers, Peter Jackson

        (Thomson Legal & Regulatory) 

Automatic Document Classification at Northern Light Technology

        Marc Krellerstein (Northern Light)

Assisted Classifier Construction for Domain-Specific Web Search

        Scott A. Waterman, Max Copperman (Kanisa)

Classification Technology at LexisNexis (Paper - Text; Slides - PowerPoint)

        Mark Wasson (LexisNexis)

The Realities of Large Scale Classification at LexisNexis

        Mark Shewhart (LexisNexis)