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SEMINAR: Managing Text Knowledge: A Vision for the Future

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Today's date is Thursday, March 28, 2024
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A very large and ever growing quantity of human knowledge is stored as unstructured electronic text. This is the reality of knowledge workers in corporations and governments, of scientists and engineers in universities and research centers and of all of us in our everyday life as can be illustrated by our increasing dependence on information available on the Web. Whether it is for searching document databases or the Web, or for organizing and digesting the formidable amount of information in scientific literature, existing textual documents management methods such as search engines fail to understand the inherent meaning of text. This is best exemplified by our frequent experience when searching the web and having to sift through hundreds of thousand of mostly irrelevant documents. Computers are not good at understanding text because they cannot handle the ambiguity, richness and variety of natural language very well. In this talk I will present an overview of the issues with existing textual document management techniques and present some promising new research that may lead to revolutionary approaches in managing text knowledge.
Speaker(s) Dr. Louis Massey, Royal Military College of Canada (Kingston, Ontario)
Location Blakers Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Mathematics Building, University of Western Australia
Contact Gillian Lester <[email protected]> : 6488 3911
URL http://www.cwr.uwa.edu.au/news/event.php
Start Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:00
End Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:00
Submitted by Gillian Lester <[email protected]>
Last Updated Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:15
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