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Semantic Search: Magnet for the Needle in the Search Haystack
A Joint NKOS-CENDI Workshop
DOT Media Center, Oklahoma City Room
U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington DC
Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 8:30 am-4:30 pm

What is Semantic Search? What user requirements does it seek to address? How is Semantic Search being implemented? How can Semantic Search technologies be evaluated? What results have we seen to-date, and what are the areas of research that may bring improvements in the future? These questions and related topics will be addressed by experts in semantic search and related technologies, users, implementers and academic researchers. This workshop will be of interest to content providers, technologists, enterprise architects, and researchers across sectors.
Watch the CENDI (www.cendi.gov<http://www.cendi.gov/>) and NKOS (http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/) websites for more information.
The Program Committee:
Gail Hodge (CENDI/IIa), Chair
Denise Bedford (Kent State Univ.)
Joseph Busch (Taxonomy Strategies)
Michael Crandall (Univ. of Washington)
Jane Greenberg (Univ. of North Carolina)
Marjorie Hlava (Access Innovations)
Michael Pendleton (US EPA)
Amanda Wilson (National Transportation Library)
Shewan Workneh (International Monetary Fund)
Marcia Lei Zeng (Kent State Univ.)
NKOS (Networked Knowledge Organization Systems) is an ad hoc work group of more than 100 international experts and implementers of knowledge organization systems. NKOS is devoted to enabling knowledge organization systems/services (KOS), such as classification systems, thesauri, gazetteers, and ontologies, as networked, interactive information services to support the description and retrieval of diverse information resources through the Internet.
CENDI is an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers from 13 U.S. federal agencies. CENDI's mission is to improve the productivity of federal science, technology and related programs through effective information support systems.
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Nikkia Anderson
Information International Associates, Inc.
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