Analyzing Textual Information: From Words to Meanings through Numbers

JOHANNES LEDOLTER has professorships in both the Business School, where he is Robert Thomas Holmes Professor of Business Analytics, and in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Iowa. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Quality, and Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. He is the author of several books, including Statistical Methods for Forecasting, Introduction to Regression Modeling, Testing 1-2-3: Experimental Design with Applications in Marketing and Service Operations, and Data Mining and Business Analytics with R. He was Professor of Statistics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business from 1997 to 2015, and held visiting professorships at Princeton, Yale, Stanford and the University of Chicago. Since 2011, he has been Associate Investigator at the Center for Prevention and Treatment of Vision Loss at the Iowa City VA Health Care System, which studies optic nerve and retinal disorders in relation to traumatic brain injury. Professor Ledolter enjoys working on multi-disciplinary projects that involve both numeric and text information.

LEA VANDERVELDE is Josephine Witte Professor of Law at the University of Iowa.  She is an award-winning author in the fields of law and legal history. She is the author of several casebooks, dozens of articles in the nation’s leading law journals, and two historical works, Mrs. Dred Scott and Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott.   She has been the Guggenheim Fellow for Constitutional Studies and the May Brodbeck Humanities Fellow, and has held visiting professorships at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Bar Foundation.  She is director of the RAOS project, Reconstruction Amendment Optical Scanning, and principle investigator of the Law of the Frontier project at Stanford’s CESTA.  She had given professional lectures all over the world.