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Finding and extracting evidence

26 April 2023, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm

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Building an AI-based evidence surveillance and extraction system

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Centre for Behavior Change

Automating the extraction of knowledge from publications and the development and functioning of an AI-based evidence surveillance and information extraction system will be discussed by Professor James Thomas and Professor Alison O'Mara-Eves. We will ensure plenty of interaction both in the session and on a discussion board – we hope you can join us.

Speaker bios:

James Thomas is Principal Investigator of the Systematic Reviews Facility for the Department of Health, England, which is a large programme of policy-relevant systematic reviews with accompanying methodological development to increase their relevance and applicability for decision-making. He co-led the Cochrane ‘Project Transform’ which is implementing novel technologies and processes (including machine learning and crowdsourcing) to improve the efficiency of systematic reviews, and is co-i on a major Collaborative Award from Wellcome, the Human Behaviour-Change Project, led by Susan Michie (UCL), which is developing technologies and methodologies to organise, synthesise and present the literature in behavioural science.

Alison O'Mara-Eves , Ph.D., is Associate Director of UCL Institute of Education's EPPI-Centre. She specialises in methods for systematic reviews and meta-analysis. Prior to joining the EPPI-Centre in November 2010, she worked for a research consultancy conducting evidence reviews for policy and practice, and at the Oxford University Department of Education conducting quantitative research. Her DPhil (completed 2009, Oxford University) focused on meta-analytic methods and the application of meta-analysis to research questions on self-concept and self-esteem.

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Open Science Framework

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