Course: Bending Linguistic Rules to Harness Noisy, Vague, Unstructured Data
Time: Thurs., Mar. 12, 2015, 1:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Cost: FREE to SLA Taxonomy Division Members, $15 for SLA Members
(or contact SLA to add the division for $20), $50 for Non-SLA Members.
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Registration:http://taxonomy.sla.org/event-registration/?ee=10
(Registration closes 5 PM Eastern Time, Mar. 10, 2015)
Summary:
Findability! One of the biggest challenges to information professionals
in our current era of massive amounts of information and data. Join our
presenters Susan Golden and Jonathan Christiansen as they share their
experience with developing an ontology to auto-categorize government
procurement content. Among their many challenges are designing rules to ignore
"the noise" and add context to vagueness, and converting thousands of legacy
saved searches to their new search model.
About the Presenters:
Susan Golden is Senior Product Manager for Content at Onvia. From her
days as a business librarian to her current efforts to make sense of
unstructured government procurement data, Susan's career has focused on
findability. She has extensive experience in managing product lifecycles from
inception through launch. She is joined by Jonathan Christiansen, Ontology Lead
for Content/Product at Onvia. Jonathan has degrees in history and linguistics
and since 2008 has lent his talents to various Onvia projects including basic
categorization automation, data extraction methods, and the tagging and
classification of highly irregular data.
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