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Toby Segaran
Data Scientist, Google

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Toby Segaran is the author of the O’Reilly title, “Programming Collective Intelligence”, Amazon’s top-selling AI book, and the Director of Software Development at Genstruct, a biotechnology company. He loves applying data-mining algorithms to everything ranging from pharmaceutical trials to the Technorati Top 100.

Sessions

4:30pm Thursday, 07/24/2008

Machine Learning for Knowledge Extraction from Wikipedia & Other Semantically Weak Sources

Emerging Topics
Location: Portland 255

Jamie Taylor (Metaweb), Colin Evans (Metaweb), Toby Segaran (Google)

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Wikipedia is a significant source of raw material for the machine learning and knowledge extraction community, but working with Wikipedia's export and markup structures is a cumbersome task everyone who wants to work with this data must endure. This session introduces the open data community to WEX, a pre-parsed, annotated, relational data set that facilitates easy-access to Wikipedia data. Read more.