Babelscape, an industry leader in commercializing semantic AI research into industrial-powered NLP applications, will provide semantic analytics for research efforts within the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Florida.
Comprehendo® is Babelscape’s state-of-the-art text analyzer for word sense disambiguation and entity linking. It is one component of the Babelscape platform, a suite of multilingual semantic-powered products.
University of Florida and the Department of Agriculture and Biological Engineering
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. The university traces its origins to 1853 and has operated continuously on its Gainesville campus since September 1906.
The University of Florida’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering is founded on developing, teaching, and applying engineering principles to improve and sustain agricultural and biological systems for current and future generations.
Dr. Howard Beck: Dr. Beck’s background is in electrical engineering, information technology, and philosophy. For many years, he focused on databases, building storage and retrieval systems for a variety of programs at the University of Florida. But Beck’s interest in artificial intelligence motivated him to look for a way of storing knowledge, not just information.
Howard Beck, Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, University of Florida:
“A knowledge graph for agriculture is being integrated with LLMs in a neuro-symbolic architecture. We use Comprehendo with BabelNet
to ground words appearing in agricultural publications to standard entities and to augment the knowledge graph with semantic
relationships”.
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