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        Roger H. Thompson, Ph.D.
        Consulting Software Engineer
        <P>My current area of research is knowledge organization. In this area I am constructing prototype systems to leverage the power of human and machine constructed knowledge organization schemes to find desired information sources.&nbsp;These prototypes arise from the intersection of graphic design, information retrieval, user interaction, and knowledge representation. My most recent prototype is <A href="http://fictionfinder.oclc.org">FictionFinder</A>. This system enables seekers to search FRBRized "work" records in novel ways.</P>
    <P>Since joining OCLC Research in 1990 I have worked on a variety of projects, including information retrieval from large text databases (TREC-1 conference), automatic database description construction from tagged text (FRED project), and automatic classification of web documents (Scorpion Porject). I was the primary designer and implementor of OCLC's WebDewey product.</P>
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    <LI>Vizine-Goetz, Diane, Carol Hickey, Andrew Houghton and Roger Thompson. "<A href="http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v04/i04/Vizine-Goetz/">Vocabulary Mapping for Terminology Services</A>." <EM>Journal of Digital Information</EM>, 4,4 (March 2004), Article No. 272, 2004-03-11.</LI></UL>
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    <LI><A href="../projects/frbr/fictionfinder.htm">FictionFinder</A>
    <LI><A href="../projects/termservices/default.htm">Terminology Services</A></LI></UL>

        <A href="mailto:thompson@oclc.org" target=_self>thompson@oclc.org</A>
        +1-614-761-5023

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