Re-invigorating a middle-aged publisher with machine learning, AI and open data Jonathan Griffin, Managing Director, IFIS Publishing & Jignesh Bhate, CEO, Molecular Connections Obviously I am a middle aged publisher BUT so are IFIS

Who are IFIS? educational charity founded 50 years ago Three trade associations concerned about difficulties of locating relevant research

What does IFIS do? Publish an abstracting & indexing database for food science community Team of food scientists curate content Used by universities worldwide

How are things going? The difficulties of locating relevant research are greater than they were Huge increases in scientific output High levels of innovation

There is now an extensive range of search tools How are things going? There is now an extensive range of search tools Time to retire?

is the most widely used tool in food science How are things going? is the most widely used tool in food science Google Scholar is seriously flawed Text string searches (not AI) Large numbers of irrelevant results Relevant results missed Articles from predatory journals not filtered out Faculty members are concerned … So, it’s not time to retire!

How are we reinvigorating our activities? Training & education to promote best practice Diversifying portfolio to balance risk Deploy latest technologies to further improve quality & relevance of information search  PROBLEM: We are an editorial driven organization & lack technical expertise SOLUTION: Partnership

+ = India's leading informatics company Charity based in a barn in SE England = Productive partnership

Increase in number of records FSTA (abstracting & indexing database) Increase in number of records Accuracy of search results (enhanced thesaurus) Cost savings Escalex New online service in an adjacent market Solves problems arising from using web to locate legislation Nominated for industry award last year New product pipeline Analytics Subsets of data

Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd. SCOPE & CHALLENGES SCOPE Processing regulatory & compliance information pertaining to Food Sciences/Industry of different regions and languages – Real time CHALLENGES Quick search and indexing on huge datasets (Text) Handle unstructured text across different types of datasets (Documents, WEB APIs) Managing updates (Up to date information) Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd.

Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd. Workflow ML AI LEGACY CURATED CONTENT BIG DATA platforms Linked Data WEB CONTENT PLUS Domain Expertise New Product Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd.

Legacy Curated Content Different file format Million + Abstracts WEB CONTENT 10 Million + Metadata 50 + years of Legacy content Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd.

Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd. MC’s proprietary platforms Description: End to end flexible content parser ML/AI ML based content segmentation And structure recognition modules Word, Excel, LaTeX, PDFs, XMLs, Social media texts Standards: TEI/XML/APIs Description: A high throughput semantic fingerprinting system ML/AI Topic Modelling ML based Entity Extraction Feature driven Classification Ontology based tagging/indexing Standards: APIs Heuristics/Domain Expertise: Yes Description: A Named entity recognition platform ML/AI Conditional Random fields(ML) based models with plug and lay ensemble capabilities Feedback ingestion and logs (Active training in AI terms) Standards: APIs Heuristics/Domain Expertise: Yes Description: A complete ontology management solution ML/AI ML modules that identify missing ‘Concepts’ and in parallel suggest candidate concepts Parse and mine large amounts of resources for candidate or lead generation in real time Standards: SKOS/RDF-XML/OWL/APIs Heuristics/Domain Expertise: Yes Description: A visual summary and analytics studio ML/AI Plug and play NERs and ontologies Standards: Embed, exchange formats Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd.

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Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd. New Product development engine Benefits Multiple New Products Content Slicing Granular Analytics Superior visualization Better Discoverability Linked Data New Product Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd.

Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd. Enhancing existing datasets Automated data processing significantly increased capacity AI-enhanced tools used to move from print-centric to enhanced digital thesaurus enabling more accurate search results Linked Data Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd.

Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd. Pipeline AI, ML & linked data enable us to take existing datasets to develop a new product pipeline Content collections Analytics Linked Data Copyright © 2018 Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd.

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