LD4 Discovery Affinity Group: 06/16/26, 9 AM PT/12 PM ET: AI, LD, and discovery - semantic search examples, intro to language models and neural networks

[Huda Khan]

Hi all!

Last session, we reviewed vectors and embeddings and walked though examples of lexical keyword search and Word2Vec.

Next session on Tuesday,  June 16th, we will recap core concepts once more, then delve into the basics of language models and neural networks, as we build up to LLMs. We will also touch upon concrete examples of semantic search in academic libraries.

Time permitting, we may revisit Word2Vec to walk through the neural network components and related calculations.  We will also review possibilities for linked data and knowledge integration with these technologies.

Our agenda and notes are available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/19e6AyJoX1GJybV5UeG2o0RJTm_WEf0bHksYlyuFqS6o/edit?tab=t.0 .

Thank you and we hope to see you next week!

Astrid and Huda

LD4 Discovery Affinity Group Co-chairs