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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. 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> <UL> <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> <UL> <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 <IMG alt="Roger Thompson, Ph.D." src="../images/people/thompson.jpg" width=150 border=0 ASSETID="3793">