John Pierre's Professional Work

My current profession includes work in the areas of Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Data Mining. My main areas of expertise are Text Categorization and Information Extraction. I am interested in how computers can represent, aquire, and act on basic knowledge.

Most of my current work is focused on the development of the Interwoven MetaTagger product.

Here is an article in Technology Research News that describes some work I did on the automated classification of web sites.

I've also contributed to a few publications:

• Mining from Noisy Learners [PDF preprint version]
• Mining Knowledge from Text Collections Using Automatically Generated Metadata, Fourth International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management 2002 [PDF preprint version]
• On the Automated Classification of Web Sites, Linköping Electronic Articles in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 6 (2001) [PDF preprint version]
• Practical Issues for Automated Categorization of Web Sites, ECDL 2000 Workshop on the Semantic Web [PDF preprint version]
• Practical Evaluation of IR within Automated Classification Systems, Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 1999) [PDF preprint version]