Cross-Cutting Research Workshops in Intelligent Information Systems

为期六周的智能信息系统(IIS)研究研讨会正在约翰霍普金斯大学语言工程的机器学习中举行。它致力于与机器智能的其他领域进行交叉受精。研讨会有不同的专业人员和学生团队，致力于推动科学水平的发展。语言工程包括语音识别、机器翻译、信息检索和提取等，并与IIS内的其他领域分享基本的机器学习技术，最明显的是计算机视觉、医学和生物信息学以及社会网络分析。研讨会的目标是促进IIS的机器学习，并通过与资深科学家合作来吸引学生进入该领域并启动他们的研究。对于解决相关问题的项目，IIS社区发出了公开征求建议书。收到的35份建议书在一次规划会议上进行了评估(参加会议的有项目支持者、政府代表和相关领域的专家)，会议选择了具体的项目、研究负责人和许多高级参与者。研究生是根据他们已知的表现挑选出来的，本科生是通过全国搜索来选择的。研讨会将传播其结果，并帮助将他们纳入不同地理位置的机构的研究。过去的五次讲习班在主要期刊和会议上发表了80篇文章。有些工作是在讲习班期间开始的，并在讲习班结束后完成。来自几个机构的个人在这次研讨会上进行合作研究，发现新技术，创造和传播有价值的工具，并建立长期合作。研究生和本科生都开始进入IIS领域。

A six-week-long research workshop on Intelligent Information Systems (IIS) is being held at Johns Hopkins University on Machine Learning for Language Engineering. It strives for cross-fertilization with other areas of machine intelligence. The workshop has diverse teams of professionals and students engaged in an intensive effort to advance the state of science.Language Engineering encompasses speech recognition, machine translation, information retrieval and extraction, etc., and shares fundamental Machine Learning techniques with other fields within IIS, most notably computer vision, medical- and bio-informatics and social network analysis.The goal of the workshop is to advance machine learning for IIS and to attract students to the field and initiate them in research by working alongside senior scientists.For projects to address relevant problems, an open call for proposals was issued to the IIS community. The (35) received proposals were evaluated at a planning meeting (attended by project proponents, government representatives, and experts from related fields) which chose the specific projects, their research leaders and many senior participants. The graduate students were selected according to their known performance, the undergraduates through a national search.The workshop will disseminate its results and help incorporate them into research at geographically diverse institutions. The five past workshops resulted in 80 publications in premier journals and conferences. Some of the work was initiated in the workshops and completed after their conclusion. Individuals from several institutions are conducting collaborative research in this workshop, discovering new techniques, creating and disseminating valuable tools and establishing long-lasting collaborations. Graduate as well as undergraduate students are being initiated into the IIS field.