Lyne Da Sylva: Improving automatic indexing by actually studying how humans do it

McGill’s School of Information Studies Speaker Series presents:

Lyne Da Sylva, Associate Professor at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, the Université de Montréal

Improving automatic indexing by actually studying how humans do it

Prof. Da Sylva research focuses on the automation of indexing and abstracting through the use of natural language processing techniques, especially back-of-the-book indexing, a little-researched and notoriously difficult indexing task. Back-of-the-book indexing is a modelling endeavour, in which one tries to replicate a human activity by automatic means.

The purpose of the SIS' Speaker Series is to give Ph.D. and masters students in the School of Information Studies a behind-the-scenes glimpse at research and the research process. Students and faculty from the Faculty of Education as well as the wider McGill community are invited to attend.