4. Nomina IV. May 2009, Woods Hole, USA.

Nomina 4: Names discovery and fuzzy matching & taxonomic names processing

Date: 27^th-28^th May 2009

Location: Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

Activities: On the development of computer algorithms that can identify scientific names within text documents (Taxonomic Name Recognition (TNR)) and algorithms that link variant spellings of scientific names together (Fuzzy Name-Matching). Nomina 4 resulted in the creation of the Taxon Name Processing project.

Participants:

• CHRIS FREELAND, BHL
• PATRICK LEARY. EOL
• DAVID PATTERSON, EOL
• TONY REES, CSIRO / IRMNG
• DAVID REMSEN, GBIF
• GUIDO SAUTTER, Plazi

Links

GBIF report