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Computer Science Seminar

Computer Science Distinguished Speaker

Searching in "Harsh" Environments

When: Monday, February 8, 2016
Where: PGH 232
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Speaker: Prof. Ophir Frieder, Georgetown University

Host: Ordonez

Many consider “searching” a solved problem, and for digital text processing, this belief is factually based. The problem is that many "real world" search applications involve "complex documents", and such applications are far from solved. We describe our efforts at building a complex document information-processing prototype. This prototype integrates "point solution" (mature) technologies, such as document readability enhancement, OCR capability, signature matching and handwritten word spotting techniques, search and mining approaches, among others, to yield a system capable of searching "real world documents".  The described prototype demonstrates the adage that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts".

Bio:

Ophir Frieder holds the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair in Computer Science and Information Processing and previously served as the Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He is also Professor of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics in the Georgetown University Medical Center. In addition to his academic positions, he is the Chief Scientific Officer for UMBRA Health Corp.(UHC). He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and NAI.