Dear all,
I thank you for your efforts. I am honoured to inform you that we are managing to launch a
research unit dealing with Data Science research in Tunisia. This research unit is named
"Data Engineering and Semantics". It belongs to Computer Science and
Communications Department, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax. The group will
be led by Dr. Mohamed BEN AOUICHA
(
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=XPVUu-gAAAAJ&hl=fr)=fr). He was the person
behind the project of University of Sfax about the use of Wikipedia and Wiktionary in
semantic technologies, particularly semantic similarity measures. As explained in my
previous emails, we need the research unit to have Wikimedia Researchers in the University
of Sfax affiliated to an official research structure. The main goal of the unit is to
promote and monitor research efforts about Data Engineering and Semantic Technologies in
the University of Sfax. Data Enginering and Semantic Technology researches are needed to
ameliorate the usage and processing of knowledge bases including wikis. Effectively, we
will work in this unit to develop tools to ameliorate linked data quality of Wikidata and
to use Wikidata for a variety of purposes including clinical decision support, Natural
Language Processing and Education. We will also analyze the output of wikis, identify
deficiencies and work to solve them. However, this will not be possible without several
letters of support from several institutions. I ask if your research institution can send
us a letter of support so that we can have the approval of the Tunisian Ministry of Higher
Education to create our new research unit.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
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