[nfais-l] Text Mining - NFAIS Webinar May 15th

[Bonnie Lawlor]

NFAIS Webinar:  Text Mining:  What it is and How to Get Started (May 15,
2013)

On May 15, 2013 NFAIS will hold a 90-minute webinar from 11:00am - 12:30pm
EDST that will take at look at a report on text mining and scholarly
publishing that was published by the Publishing Research Consortium earlier
this year. Our featured speaker will be the author of the report, Jonathan
Clark, an independent advisor formerly with Elsevier as well as the former
Chair and Director of the International DOI Foundation.

 

Why Attend? Mining existing content to unearth new, valuable insights is
becoming an essential tool in the ongoing quest by publishers to provide
information seekers with more targeted, relevant answers to their queries.
At the recently-held 2013 NFAIS Annual conference, data mining of both
textual and non-textual content was a major topic and 43% of the attendees
reported that their organizations are actively involved in some form of
information mining initiatives.  This is a hot topic not to be ignored!

 

Some of the key discussion points will be:

 

.       What is text mining? What is data mining? How might attendees
differentiate between the two activities?

.       Why should content providers be considering text mining as a part of
their business model?

.       How do the different purposes of various scientific communities
shape the activity of text-mining?

.       What role has computational linguistics played in the development of
modern text mining? 

.       How might this approach to a body of content support both enriched
content as well as discovery?

.       Are there preferred forms of data against which to run text-mining
applications? If so, what are they? Is this an area in flux?

.       What's involved in implementing text mining against a particular
literature?

.       What do content providers need to consider prior to opening up their
content for this purpose? What do researchers need to consider before
approaching content providers for access?

.       Is there a role for libraries to play in aiding researchers and
research communities seeking to further develop text mining technologies for
a particular usage?

.       What are the challenges to be faced in text mining? 

.       What are the copyright concerns surrounding text mining?

 

If you or your staff want to learn more about text/data mining and how it
can improve your products and services (enhancing content, adding links,
insights for new products, etc,), register for the NFAIS webinar today.
NFAIS members pay $105, Sister Society members pay $115, and non-members pay
$125.  An unlimited number of staff from NFAIS member organizations can
participate for a group fee of $255. The group fee for an unlimited number
of staff from any Sister Society is $275, and from a non-member organization
is $295. The registration form is available at:
http://nfais.org/event?eventID=521.

For more information contact Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director, Communication and
Planning, 215-893-1561 (phone); 215-893-1564 (fax);
mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org or go to http://www.nfais.org/.

 

 

 

 

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