Mining and management of data on conferences and workshops

The goal of this work is to create an application, which would help its users to be acquianted with huge amounts of information on conferences, workshops, congresses, and Symposiums. The number of shown events can be reduced by the use of an advanced system of user-defined filters. The application contains a sophisticated system of user privileges and provides support for creating personal and group calendars. An important part of the application is a module for automated retrieving of information from incoming e-mail messages. This module uses a simple pattern matching for extracting deadlines, topics, name, and other important data on a particular conference. These patterns are stored in a hand-crafted dictionary. The accuracy of this module is about 80% for mining the dates and about 70% for mining other types of data