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Colin Evans
Data Understanding Engineer, Metaweb

Colin fights information entropy on a daily basis using a wide arsenal of machine learning and semantic analytic techniques. The results of his efforts appear as millions of assertions in Freebase. Prior to joining Metaweb, Colin helped users organize their world through his work on the IRIS semantic desktop project at SRI.

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.