Hello Eric, Just wanted to drop a note to say that I'm interested! Are you looking for people to attend one of the regional meetings, or some other type of participation as well?
Thanks, Michael On 10/26/18 11:06 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > The library here at the University of Notre Dame has been awarded a grant > from the IMLS on the topic of natural language processing, text mining, and > machine learning, and in the end we will be looking for possible partnerships > with others who want to exploit these same technologies. > > Here is a blurb describing our planning grant: > > Investigating the national need for library based topic modeling > discovery systems [1] > > The University of Notre Dame is seeking an IMLS planning grant to > convene a diverse community during the 2019 calendar year that > will contribute to conceptualization of digital tools that > support the creation and dissemination of cross-disciplinary > research. The grant would enable us to conduct a series of > workshops as venues for the collaboration of domain experts, > librarians, and computer science specialists. > > The goals are to understand their unique current practices and to > identify possibilities to use topic modeling and NLP to enhance > or augment current library classification in order to meet > current cross-disciplinary research needs. The target community > includes small and large and public and academic libraries and > institutions. > > To accomplish our goals we will be hosting four regional, day-long meetings > in Notre Dame, Palo Alto, New York City, and Washington, DC during the next > six to nine months. Each meeting will be attended by: 1) content experts from > any number of different domains (political science, economics, history, > etc.), 2) computer scientists, 3) and librarians. The meetings will be a > combination of show & tell, discussions, and hands-on activities. By the end > of each meeting we hope to answer two questions. To what degree do you think > things like NLP can be used to better facilitate cross-disciplinary research? > And if so, then what set of prioritized features/functions do think are > desirable? > > We will then write the obligatory white paper, do our best to disseminate the > results, and if successful, look for partners who would like to help create > the desirable system. > > Watch this space for further details, but if you think you might want to > participate or have any suggestions, then please do not hesitate to drop me a > line. > > [1] a complete description of the grant is available from the IMLS - > https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-72-18-0221-18 >
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