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National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

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The ECHO Depository is a digital preservation research and development project funded by the Library of Congress under their National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. The ECHO Depository project pulls together several streams of activities aimed at helping to answer the question of how digital resources will be identified, archived, and preserved for the future.

The goal of this project is to develop general purpose tools for identifying and disambiguating mentions of entities of different types in a diverse set of documents, and develop methods for cross referencing these to resources such as WorldCat Identities and Wikipedia.

This work is performed in collaboration with the UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS).

Relevant Publications:

L. Ratinov and D. Roth, Design Challenges and Misconceptions in Named Entity Recognition. Proc. of the Annual Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) (2009) [bibitem]
M. Chang, L. Ratinov, and D. Roth, Constraints as Prior Knowledge. ICML Workshop on Prior Knowledge for Text and Language Processing (2008) pp. 32-39 [bibitem]
M. Chang, L. Ratinov, D. Roth, and V. Srikumar, Importance of Semantic Represenation: Dataless Classification. Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2008) [bibitem]
M. Chang, L. Ratinov, N. Rizzolo, and D. Roth, Learning and Inference with Constraints. Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2008) [bibitem]