Locating Knowledge from Key Phrase Extraction

Funded by Astra Zeneca

Project head: Dr Thomas Jackson

Duration: November 2004 – October 2008

Description

“Knowledge management” has become the buzzword in the press in recent times and although there has been a strong emphasis on the advantages of knowledge management in organisations, applications developed to take advantage of knowledge within emails are still very limited.
There are a large number of tasks for which keyphrases can be useful. Manually identifying keyphrases can be a tedious and time consuming process that requires expertise, but if automated could save time and aid in creating metadata that could be used to locate knowledge sources. This project will involve the development and implementation of a graphical online email knowledge-based system, called EKE, that captures the knowledge within electronic messages. EKE will enable users to find other people who might hold the knowledge they require from information communicated via the email system. The effectiveness of the extraction system will be tested and compared against other extraction systems and the overall value of extracting information from email explored.
The EKE project is part of a wider research programme into email communication by Dr Jackson at Loughborough University.

Contact:
Thomas Jackson
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU
Email: t.w.jackson@lboro.ac.uk