1. 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

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. 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!

7. 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

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

9. 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

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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)
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Workflow ML AI
LEGACY
CURATED CONTENT
BIG DATA
platforms
Linked Data
WEB
CONTENT
PLUS
Domain Expertise
New Product
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12. Legacy Curated Content
Different file format
Million + Abstracts
WEB
CONTENT
10 Million + Metadata
50 + years of Legacy content
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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
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Workflow ML AI
LEGACY
CURATED CONTENT
BIG DATA
platforms
Linked Data
WEB
CONTENT
PLUS
Domain Expertise
New Product
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New Product development engine
Benefits
Multiple New Products
Content Slicing
Granular Analytics
Superior visualization
Better Discoverability
Linked Data
New Product
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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
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Pipeline
AI, ML & linked data enable us to take existing datasets to develop a new product pipeline
Content collections
Analytics
Linked Data
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Questions?
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Thank You!!
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