Project Topic Proposal: Knowledge management system for topic analysis in office environments

The goal of this project will be to produce a knowledge management system to support the mining of data in typical office communication environments to answer questions about what people are working on and what deliverables they are producing. For example, who worked on robot coordination algorithms in a given month?
- social networking
- latent semantical indexing
- query communications analysis data
- Python script to generate test dat from Wikpedia
- plugin architecture for visualization
- framework of entities and relations
- fits into several projects
- emphasis could be on visualization or analysis
Contact persons
- Jeanine Ayers, Nathan Schurr; Aptima
Background required

- statistics, model checking, machine learning
- at least one of {Flex, REST/SOAP, Web-based development}