Meetings

Processing and management of the ever-increasing amount of spoken and written information appears to be a huge challenge for statisticians, computer scientists, engineers and linguists; the situation is further aggravated by the explosive growth of the web, the largest known electronic document collection.

There is a pressing need for high-accuracy Information Retrieval (IR) systems, Speech Recognition systems, and "smart" Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems.

This workshop on Document Space has the goal of bringing together researchers in Mathematics, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Linguistics; the hope is that a unified theory describing "document space" will emerge that will become the vehicle for the development of algorithms for tackling efficiently (both in accuracy and computational complexity) the challenges mentioned above.

Financial support is available to attend the workshop.

Additional information about the Document Space program, registration and application instructions can be found at

http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/DS2006.