Ellie King - Data Scientist, GDS

Detecting semantic similarity on GOV.UK

Ellie King - Data Scientist, GDS and Nicky Zachariou - Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ, 23 May 2019 - Data science, Machine learning, Python

Find out all the ways in which semantic similarity is helping us improve GOV.UK

How we used deep learning to structure GOV.UK’s content

Nicky Zachariou - Head of Data Science (Prisons and Probation), MoJ, Ellie King - Data Scientist, GDS and Felisia Loukou - Data Scientist, GDS, 19 October 2018 - Data insights, Data science, Machine learning, People and Skills

We're using supervised machine learning to organise all the content on GOV.UK, which means we can do things like create step by step journeys and consider voice activation. Here's what the data science team did.

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