We’re only a few days out from our Freebase user group meeting, and it looks like it will be huge.

We’ll also be having a tshirt giveaway for the highly-sought-after Freebase tshirts, as modeled here by our Minister of Information, Jamie.

Be sure to arrive on time for beer, pizza, and not missing the start of the presentations. If you’re planning to attend, please RSVP to give us an idea of numbers.

The lineup of speakers includes:

Max Lansing from Powerset: Searching Freebase with Natural Language
Max will present a key component of Powerset’s first product, which provides a bridge between the company’s natural language processing technology and Freebase’s structured data, in order to provide Freebase search results for questions or phrase queries.

Kirrily Robert: New features on Freebase.com.
A tour of the best new features of our latest release, including the filter/table view and improvements to domain homepages.

Colin Evans : Hadoop and Jython at Freebase.
How we use Hadoop and parallel processing with Jython to analyse lots of data.

Justin Bonnar: Freebase graph metrics.
What can we learn by looking at Freebase as a general-purpose graph?

Toby Segaran: Visualising free data on public companies.
How Toby used SEC and other data about American corporations to create a Freebase mashup.

Kurt Bollacker: How Freebase mines Wikipedia data
Taking off from Brian’s Wikipedia Mining talk at our last meeting, Kurt will give some more detail about how we extract semantic meaning from Wikipedia articles using various techniques.