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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_Val...

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