Dear all, This is a kind reminder for the upcoming StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar. Schedule: 15 January 2016, 11:00 am
**Important update:** the location has moved to downtown Trento. **New location:** Aula Grande - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via S.Croce 77, Trento, Italy - http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/67197096 The seminar will be streamed online, a link will be shared as soon as it is available. See you in Trento! Cheers, Marco 2015-12-23 17:03 GMT+01:00 Marco Fossati <[email protected]>: > [Begging pardon if you read this multiple times] > > Hi everyone, > > I would like to announce with great pleasure the StrepHit IEG project > kick-off seminar. > Of course, you are all invited to attend. > > The event will be held in a special day: Wikipedia's birthday! > > Below you can find the details. > > Schedule: 15 January 2016, 11:00 am, Luigi Stringa Conference Room > Location: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18, Povo, Trento, Italy > - http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28933739 > > Abstract: We kick-off StrepHit, a project funded by the Wikimedia > Foundation through the Individual Engagement Grants program. > StrepHit is a Natural Language Processing pipeline that understands human > language, extracts facts from text and produces Wikidata statements with > reference URLs. > It will enhance the data quality of Wikidata by suggesting references to > validate statements, and will help Wikidata become the gold-standard hub of > the Open Data landscape. > > Link: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Validation_via_References > > Speaker's bio: Marco Fossati is a researcher with a double background in > Natural Languages and Information Technologies. He works at the Data and > Knowledge Management (DKM) research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, > Trento, Italy. He is member of the DBpedia Association board of trustees, > founder and representative of its Italian chapter. He has interdisciplinary > skills both in linguistics and in programming. His research focuses on > bridging the gap between Natural Language Processing techniques and Large > Scale Structured Knowledge Bases in order to drive the Web of Data towards > its full potential. > > See you in Trento and long live Wikipedia! > Cheers, > > Marco > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
