Adaptive Multimedia Information Access

Increasing sources and amounts of information challenge users around
the globe. Broadcast new sources and newspapers provide society with
the vast majority of real-time information. Unfortunately, cost
efficiencies and real-time pressures demand that producers, editors
and writers select and organize content for stereotypical audiences.
In this presentation we will briefly summarize the state of the art in
information retrieval, extraction and summarization, then illustrate
how language understanding, user modeling, and tailored presentation
generation promise to enable automated "Personalcasts on Demand".

Bio:

Mark Maybury received his M.Phil. in Computer Speech and Language
Processing (1987) and his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (1991) for
his dissertation, "Generating Multisentential Text using Communicative
Acts" at Cambridge University. He was awarded an MBA from RPI in
1989. Mark has organised multiple international symposia, given
tutorials, and published over fifty technical and tutorial articles in
the area of language generation, multimedia presentation, text
summarization, and intelligent multimedia information retrieval. Mark
has a patent pending (60/065,947) for content based segmentation and
presentation of broadcast news. Mark is editor of Intelligent
Multimedia Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press, 1993), Intelligent Multimedia
Information Retrieval (AAAI/MIT Press, 1997) and co-editor of Readings
on Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Press, 1998), Advances
in Text Summarization (MIT Press, 1999) and Readings in Knowledge
Management (2001). Mark is Executive Director of MITRE's Information
Technology Division and a member of the Board of Directors of the
Object Management Group and Treasurer/Secretariat for ACM SIGART.

If you would like to meet with the speaker, please contact:

Wolfgang Wahlster

This seminar series is jointly organized by the Department of
Computational Linguistics and Phonetics and the European Post-Graduate
College in Language Technology and Cognitive Systems.

A current version of the program for this term can be found at:

http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/colloquium/