Extracting profiles for People, Organizations and Beyond: Summarization on Steroids.

“How on earth am I going to read it all?” Is it what you think when you need some key information from a mountain of documents? At Lymba, we are developing a knowledge extraction tool that automatically creates concise profiles for various entities. Such template-based summarization can satisfy different knowledge needs in multiple domains. For example, professional profiles for people include education and employment history, key projects, awards, publications, key colleagues, research interests, etc. For organizations, the profiles include information of interest such as products, management, legal history, corporate culture and financial information. The same approach can extract patient profiles with key health-related information in the medical domain, and publication profiles describing clinical trial settings, socio-demographics and health problems, interventions and outcomes. Furthermore, this approach was applied to grant proposals and scientific publications, reducing information burden on researchers. Attendees will learn use cases in multiple domains, tools used (including open source ones) and best practices to for a successful project.