Division Web Pages: Requirements and Suggestions

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Division Web PagesRequirements and Suggestions
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Visitors PerspectiveQuery by topic or project

• Work on NL generation at ISI?
• Current work NITROGEN
• Past projects PENMAN, Paris/Mittal/Moore
• See related projects Debrief, Media-Doc, NLG
• Researchers Hovy, Knight, Johnson
• Papers
• Work on PENMAN?

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Visitors PerspectiveQuery by publication

• I think I saw a paper by Knoblock at W3
  conference
• Get paper
• Get bibtex reference
• Get project web page
• Get authors web page
• Get more recent papers on that work

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Visitors PerspectiveQuery by researcher

• What new things is Hovy working on?
• Has Pynadath published anything lately?
• Vaguer queries
• Who works on EXPECT?
• I met someone from ISI at the W3 conference
• I met someone from ISI that worked on agents
  stuff
• What ever happened to MacGregor, Swartout

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Visitors PerspectiveWhats new at ISI?

• Wow, they won a best paper award at AIED!
• Wow, they have the first deployed agents system
  24/7
• Wow, they are organizing a conference on digital
  government
• Wow, three students are graduating this year and
  looking for jobs
• Wow, they have an interesting new project on
  Semantic Web

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Visitors Who are they

• Researchers
• Funders
• Companies
• Potential collaborators
• Prospective students
• Curious people

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Our PerspectiveTransmitting Excellence

• Awards and recognition for research
• Publications
• Accomplishments, sw releases, demos
• Media attention

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Our PerspectiveTransmitting Academic Culture

• Current graduate students
• Thesis topics
• Graduated students
• Where are they now
• Courses taught regularly and otherwise
• Courses designed and started by ISI people
• Ties to campus CSD, IMSC

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Our PerspectiveTransmitting Service to AI
Community

• Conference organization
• Journal editorial boards
• Organizations (SIGART, AAAI, ACL,)
• Committees and review panels

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Our PerspectiveTransmitting Applied Research

• Well-known applications built by ISI
• Software distributed by ISI
• Demonstrations to high-profile customers

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Our PerspectiveTransmitting Outside Interest

• Collaborative projects with research groups
  outside ISI
• SRI, MERL, Cycorp,
• Research groups that use our software/ideas
• Recent visitors

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Our PerspectiveFunding Success

• Variety of projects and funding sources
• Long-running projects with sustained funding

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Our PerspectiveTransmitting Environment

• Full time researchers students
• Regular AI seminars
• Retreats
• Newsletter
• Division lunch
• AI grads group and meetings

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Lets Have SomeVisionThe Semantic Web

• Semantic markup of project/people info
  (XML/RDF/DAML)
• Pages generated automatically
• Pages updated automatically
• Integrates nicely with E-elves

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Lets Have Some Visione.g., InfoSeek/CiteSeer

• Organize and integrate our publications in
  interesting and useful ways
• http//www.neci.nec.com/lawrence/researchindex.ht
  ml
• http//citeseer.nj.nec.com/lawrence98context.html

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Additional Thoughts

• Check out similar research institutions
• MIT AI Lab
• SRI AI group