Marjorie M.K. Hlava is President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc. She is very well known in the international information arena and has served on numerous committees and the boards of NFAIS, ASIST, SLA, NISO, and Documentation Abstracts. She has published more than two hundred articles and books on information science topics. Her research areas include furthering the productivity of content creation and the governance layer for information access through automated indexing, thesaurus development, taxonomy creation, natural language processing, machine translations, and machine aided indexing. She has given countless presentations domestically and internationally, including keynote addresses. She has given workshops and lectures on thesaurus development, taxonomy creation, natural language processing, machine translations, and machine aided indexing.

Look Before You Leap: Taxonomy is a Foundational Technology for Natural Language Processing

Co-presented with: Heather Kotula

Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Generative AI are hot news – or are they? Access Innovations has been working with artificial intelligence since 1978, and we’ve learned a thing or two. One of them is to start with the basics, and taxonomy is a foundational technology for NLP, which supports AI. Join taxonomy experts Margie Hlava and Heather Kotula for a half day, lightning speed tutorial on all things taxonomy, including how it drives productivity for journal production and researcher output, how it supports member organizations in conference planning and business analytics, and more.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• What is a taxonomy
• Where you can use a taxonomy to create value for an organization – eg, drive revenue and increase customer satisfaction
• How a taxonomy underpins AI, NLP, and associated systems The difference between taxonomy, thesaurus and ontology