Re: NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 10 July 2012 Lisp NYC: Raymond de Lacaze on Knowledge Extraction

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On 10 Jul 2012 01:39:02 -0400, secretary@lxny.org wrote:

> <blockquote
>   what="official Lisp NYC announcement"
>   more="http://www.lispnyc.org/";
>   edits="">
> 
>  Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:02:06 -0400
>  From: Heow Goodman <h...@alphageeksinc.com>
>  To: LispNYC <l...@lispnyc.org>, lisp-annou...@lispnyc.org
>  Subject: Reminder: Lisp Meeting, Tuesday, July 10, 7:00 PM at GOOGLE
> 
>  July 10, 7:00 PM at Google via the 9th Ave Entrance for:
> 
>  Raymond de Lacaze: Knowledge Extraction
> 
>  Raymond describes his independent Lisp research project intended to
>  extract knowledge from the Wikipedia website.
> 
>  His project combines natural language processing techniques, knowledge
>  representation paradigms and machine learning algorithms that creates a
>  semantic model of the information contained in Wikipedia.
> 
>  This presents an algorithm for the automatic generation of topic
>  taxonomies and suggests how such a model can be used to implement
>  contextually relevant web searches. In doing so, Raymond provides a
>  brief overview of the following topics and algorithms:
> 
>    * Natural Language Processing
>    * Semantic Nets
>    * Similarity Metrics
>    * Clustering Algorithms
> 

> 
> Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
> Corresponding Secretary LXNY
> LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
> http://www.lxny.org

Sounds perfect for insomniacs.

Will you be handing out NoDoz at the door?