[FAO x UNSD Brown Bag webinar] Essence - an integrated framework for documents retrieving and analysis

“Essence” stands for Expert Search Semantic ENriChmEnt and is a web tool developed by the FAO Data Lab that automatizes searching for scientific articles and identifies the most relevant ones through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The AI method learns and extends users’ previous selections by recognizing patterns in their texts. Essence offers a semantic search engine and interactive filters to navigate the stored data, plus data visualization functions or procedures to extract statistical values from unstructured texts.

Speakers: 

• Carola Fabi is a Senior Statistician in FAO Statistics Division where she leads the Methodological Innovation Team and coordinates the Data Lab for statistical innovation. Carola is an Economic Statistician by training;
• Marco Scarno is a Senior Statistician and Data Scientist, and is the technical lead of the FAO Data Lab. He is an expert of Big Data, Data Quality, Data Analysis and modelling. Marco graduated in Economic Statistics before specializing in IT and data science;
• Craig Matadeen is a Data Scientist and the IT infrastructure manager of the FAO Data Lab. He is an expert in data analytics and business intelligence. Craig graduated in IT and has a Master Degree in Data Science.

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