Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:04:33 -0800
From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org>
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Subject: Re: [Wikidata] [ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit IEG project kick-off
        seminar
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Hi Marco,

will the seminar be streamed or recorded?

Dario

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Marco Fossati <fossati@spaziodati.eu>
wrote:

> [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
>
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