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Jamie Taylor
Minister of Information, Metaweb

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While developing an Internet laboratory for studying economic equilibria, Jamie started one of the first ISPs in San Francisco so he could get a better connection at home. He finally got a real job as CTO at DETERMINE Software (now a part of Selectica) helping create order in the unstructured world of Enterprise contract management. He is now helping to organize the world’s structured information at Metaweb where he oversees data operations.

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.