Welcome
The goal of the Center for Multimodal Information Access and Synthesis Center (MIAS) at UIUC is to develop the fundamental theories, computational models, algorithms, and tools for analysts to access a variety of data formats and models, to integrate them with existing resources, and to transform raw data into useful and understandable information, in support of productive and efficient analysis. We aim at extending the state-of-the-art and develop new technologies for:
- Focused data retrieval and integration, to identify and collect relevant data from multiple modalities
- Semantic data enrichment, to allow navigation and search across disparate data modalities and augment knowledge bases by inferring semantics from unstructured data and images
- Entity identification and relationship discovery, to identify real-world entities and relate them to existing institutional resources
- Knowledge discovery and hypotheses generation and verification, to construct the rich semantic structure and hidden networks of entity linkages
- Fundamental machine learning, database and data mining, natural language processing, and computer vision techniques required for and driven by the aforementioned problems.
Our educational mission is to develop diverse human resources to enhance the scientific research, educational, and governmental workforce in MIAS disciplines. Our educational initiatives have been developed to encourage computer science students in universities with small research programs, particularly those that are minority serving, to pursue graduate studies at stronger institutions, where they can make a bigger impact on the field, and to expose them to national labs. Key to this effort is the Data Sciences Summer Institute, a comprehensive education program designed to increase participation in the study and practice of MIAS topics
More information about the MIAS center and its faculty can be found in this presentation. You may also refer to this one-page summary of the center.
News
9/15/2008
MIAS/AIIS Seminar Series
Click here for the 2008-09 MIAS/AIIS Seminar Series
8/27/2008
2008-09 DHS Brown Bag Talks Announced!
Click here for the 2008-09 MIAS Center Brown Bag talks!
5/21/2008
DSSI 2008 Projects
