Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery (JIKD)
University of Maryland, College Park

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Research

Our current research efforts include:
  • EMail and Speech -- This project strives to help users make sense of large digital eMail and speech data collections by formulating and applying innovative ideas and software solutions.
    Project lead: Doug Oard
  • Probabalistic Linkage and Activity Inference -- This project focuses on probabilistic method useage with respect to Entity Resolution, Probabilistic Ontologies, Probabilistic Ontology Browsers, and Spatio-Temporal Activity Identification.
    Project Lead: V.S. Subrahmanian
  • Annotation and Evaluation -- This project explores data source "ground truthing" which, in-turn, allows researchers to measure their approach efficacy against known criteria. It also probes new ground truthing tool approaches and mechanisms for maintaining and serving knowledge base annotations.
    Project Lead: Dave Doermann
Other efforts include:
  • Bio Generation.
  • eMail content analysis -- UMBC's Institute for Language and Information Technologies (ILIT) contributes to the e-mail analysis project by generating formal specifications of the meaning (the content) of the e-mails. It also contributes to the activity reference project by extracting from text knowledge about timed events, entity reference resolution and in general creating from text fact repositories that can be used to support automatic reasoning.
    Project Lead: Sergei Nirenburg
  • Integration.
  • Interface adaptations.

Contact TJ Rogers or Jen Golbeck for input. Last updated: 12/02/05
For more information contact Jim Hendler.