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DOE OSTI2022

For the Public Good: Connecting, Retaining, and Recognizing Current and Future RSEs at U.S. National Research Laboratories and Agencies

U.S. national research laboratories and agencies play an integral role in advancing science and technology for the public good. The authors of this article, as research software engineers (RSEs) and allies from eight unique national R&D organizations, came together to explore RSE needs from the perspective of national institutions. We identified three key areas of improvement for future RSEs to pursue science in the national interest: community establishment, hiring and retention, and recognition. In conclusion, to retain and cultivate this essential talent, U.S. national institutions must evolve to support appropriate career pathways for RSEs, and to recognize and reward RSEs’ work.

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DOE OSTI2021

Relationship Extraction: Automatic Information Extraction and Organization for Supporting Analysts in Threat Assessment

In order for analysts to be able to do their work, they sift through hundreds, thousands, or even millions of documents to make connections between entities of interest. This process is time consuming, tedious, and prone to potential error from missed connections or connections made that should not have been. There exist many tools in natural language processing, or NLP, to extract information from documents. However, when it comes to relationship extraction, there has been varied success. This project began with a goal to solve the relationship extraction problem which developed into a deeper understanding of the problem and the associated challenges for solving this problem on a general scale. In this report, we explain our research and approach to relationship extraction, identify other auxiliary problems in NLP that provide additional challenges to solving relationship extraction generally, explain our analysis of the current state of relationship extraction, and postulate future work to address these problems.

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