“The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is building on its AI text analytics capabilities and creating a new ‘bring your own documents’ web portal that will allow customers without an analytics background to apply natural language processing methods to an ad hoc set of documents, according to an HHS official.”
“Keith Bocian, senior data scientist at the HHS OIG, explained at an April 13 FCW event that text analytics is a new emerging technology the agency is looking to expand upon. Bocian said his office came up with the idea for a portal after partnering with business owners around HHS to understand ‘their potential use cases and get their guidance’ on where they should prioritize their AI efforts.”
“’They really asked us to focus on the opportunities in the area of text analytics, making it possible for customers without an analytics background to be able to apply natural language processing methods to an ad hoc sets of documents, and then also identify multiple opportunities in the area of automation,’ Bocian said…”
“The ultimate goal, Bocian said, is to build a ‘bring your own documents web portal’ that can enable users without a background in AI or analytics to search documents, extract relevant information, and be able to use tools such as ‘entity recognition and topic modeling to understand who and what documents are about…'” Read the full article here.
Source: HHS OIG Building ‘Bring Your own Documents’ Text Analytics Web Portal – By Grace Dille, April 13, 2022. MeriTalk.
