Brigham Young University

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Keynote Address
 Title: Perspective on Research Problems in Family History from the LDS Family and Church History Department

Abstract: Family History Research is hard, which provides many opportunities for computer science researchers to provide solutions to problems that will benefit millions of people in significant ways for years to come. The problems represent not only very interesting computer science research problems but also problems whose solutions could benefit critically-important real-world applications. The purpose of this presentation is to identify a few specific problems that are currently being faced by the Family and Church History Department at the LDS Church and to challenge those in attendance to research these problems.

Bio: Dallan Quass received BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. He has worked as a software engineer for a variety of companies including several years at WordPerfect. In the past seven years he has co-founded two companies: Junglee, and WhizBang/FlipDog, both technology leaders in information extraction. Dallan has served on the faculty of Brigham Young University and is currently the Chief Technology Officer for the Family and Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Session I: Modeling, Merging and Querying
Automatic Mergin of Pedigree Information
Sue Dintelman, Tim Maness

Results of Using an Efficient Algorithm to Query Disjuctive Genealogical Data
Lars E. Olson, David W. Embley

Conceptual Modeling of Genealogical Information
Andy Carver; Terry Halpin

Language-independent named entity recognition and analogical modeling
Deryle Lonsdale and Deryl Hatch

Session II: Pedigrees, Places and Census Records
A novel layout for visualizing genealogical data
Gary Lawlor

A Control for Navigating Pedigrees
Greg Jones

Genealogical Place Name Normalization
J. Robert Leaman

Extraction of Area-Based Place Name Encodings from U.S. Census Data
Kirk L. Duffin

1891 England Census on Ancestry.com
Laryn Brown; Greg Parkinson

Session III: Extraction and Recognition (forms?)

Efficient Genealogy through Personalized Extraction
Randy Wilson

Elements and Strategies for a Worldwide Genealogy System
Kent W. Huff

Forms-Based Conceptual Models for Genealogy Software
Scott N. Woodfield and Trevor Rohm


Consensus-Based Table Form Recognition
Heath E. Nielson, William A. Barrett

Handwriting Recognition for Genealogical Records
Luke Hutchison

The Digital Microfilm Pipeline
Bill Barrett

DEMOS
GENA: Interactive 3D Pedigree Display
Tom Finnigan and Tom Sederberg

Relationships
Tom Finnigan and Tom Sederberg

Name Extraction using Just-In-Time Browsing
Douglas J. Kennard and William A. Barrett

Panel Session
 Objective: What specific research problems exist that could benefit family history technology? Each panelist will have the opportunity to identify problems, why they're important, and what makes them difficult.

Panelists:
Alan Eaton
President
OneGreatFamily.com

Jake Gehring
Publisher, HeritageQuest
ProQuest Information and Learning

Daren Thayne
Chief Technology Officer
MyFamily / Ancestry.com

Michael Andrews
President
KindredKonnections / MyTrees.com

Spencer Koehler (moderator)
Principal Engineer
Family and Church History Department
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Pre-Dinner Speech
 Kelly Flanagan, Chief Technology Office of BYU, will speak in room 3211 of the Wilkinson Center prior to dinner