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Computational Linguistics in Museums: Applications for Cultural Datasets

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collection access
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steve.museum
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tagging
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computational linguistics
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text processing
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cultural data
Abstract: 

As museums continue to develop more sophisticated techniques for managing and analyzing cultural data, many are beginning to encounter challenges when trying to deal with the nuances of language and automated processing tools.  How might user-generated comments be harvested and processed to determine the nature of the comment?  Is it possible to use existing collection documentation t

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Paper - in formal session