Kudzu-Ops Mailing List: ASERL Webinar "Overview of Yewno Semantic-Analysis Engine"

[John Burger (jburger]

ASERL Friends:

Some of you returned recently from ALA and inquired about Yewno, a new type of 
discovery tool developed by Stanford University and other partners.   We are 
pleased to offer a webinar to demonstrate its uses and how Yewno can differ 
from the kinds of discovery layers many of us have implemented over the past 
few years.  

As they describe it, Yewno Education is a unique conceptual discovery 
environment based not on key words and phrases but on ideas contained in full 
text. Formally launched at ALA, Yewno is a "semantic-analysis engine" that uses 
a mix of computational semantics, graph theory, and machine learning to 
retrieve relevant documents without reliance on restrictive conventions imposed 
by external technology or data format requirements.  The technology is 
currently in beta-testing and/or trials at eight institutions: Harvard, 
Stanford, MIT, the University of Michigan, University of California–Berkeley, 
Stonehill College, Oxford University, and the Bavarian State Library. See the 
recent article about Yewno in Scholarly kitchen: 
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/07/13/have-you-looked-at-this-yewno/.  
Also see Yewno's channel on YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMVngx0NmbcPKaYwP1Syutw   


WEBINAR:  "Overview of Yewno Semantic-Analysis Engine for ASERL"
DATE / TIME:  Wednesday, Aug 10, 2016   |  2pm EDT / 1pm Central Time
REGISTER:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7719532976353160450  


As always, these sessions are available at no cost to ASERL members, and will 
be recorded for later playback.  Please share this information with other 
librarians & staff at ASERL institutions.  Our webinars are licensed under a 
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 
License. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing 
information about joining the webinar.

System Requirements
*  PC-based attendees must use Windows(r) 8, 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
*  Mac(r)-based attendees must use Mac OS(r) X 10.6 or newer
*  Mobile attendees must use iPhone(r), iPad(r), Android(tm) phone or Android 
tablet. An app download may be required.

We hope you find this offer to be of interest.  Please let me know if you 
encounter any difficulties with our e-meeting platform.

Thank you!

--jeb

John Burger, Executive Director
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)

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