The recent excitement around data transparency has focused mainly on numerical information. Yet a key challenge for transparency and citizen engagement lies in unlocking the value and meaning in textual data.
The Transparent Text symposium is a free event that will focus on ways to make large collections of documents understandable to laypeople and experts alike. We are interested in approaches that shed light on unstructured text, ranging from novel statistical techniques to web-based crowdsourcing.
By connecting pioneers in government, nonprofits, academia, and the media, we'll jumpstart the discussion on how to disseminate, analyze, and explain textual data.
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