Library information provider OCLC Research, US, has announced the appointment of Dr. Shenghui Wang as a Research Scientist, effective May 1, 2012. Dr. Wang will work from the OCLC European, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) headquarters office in Leiden, Netherlands.
Dr. Wang has been conducting research in the broad field of Artificial Intelligence with interests ranging from cognitive modelling, knowledge representation and reasoning and machine learning. Her work in natural language semantics and, more recently, in semantic interoperability in the Cultural Heritage domain is a particularly valuable expansion of the capacities of OCLC Research. Dr. Wang will be involved in current and future text and data mining work as well as linked data investigations.
Her most recent position was as a Research scientist at Wageningen UR. Prior to that, she did post-doctoral research at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Stanford Medical Informatics and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. In her new position, she will work closely with Dr. Jean Godby, Senior Research Scientist based in OCLC's Dublin, Ohio headquarters. Dr. Godby has recently done significant work aimed at the problem of automatically recognizing, extracting, and disambiguating named entities (the names of people, places, and organizations) from digitised text.
