Dear Houce,
As we have discussed, I have not been active in my academic affiliation for
many years, so it is not easy for me to offer a letter of support from the
University of Patras. However, as you know I am very supportive and
passionate about your research work so I will try to find a way to obtain a
letter from a reputable institution. This would involve a "pitch" to the
prospective professor and/or department: do you have a summary of your work
in a document, something that could very quickly get the point across to an
audience who knows very little about Wikidata but would be willing to learn
more about it and support our efforts? I have a couple of people in mind...
Thank you, hope to hear from you soon
Mina
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, 21:32 Houcemeddine A. Turki, <
turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr> wrote:
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. We need this 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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