Tim Allison

Tim has been working in natural language processing since 2002. In the last 5+ years, his focus has shifted to content/metadata extraction (and evaluation), advanced search and relevance tuning. Tim is the founder of Rhapsode Consulting LLC, and he currently works as a data scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Tim is a member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the chair/VP of Apache Tika, and a committer on Apache OpenNLP (2020), Apache Lucene/Solr (2018), Apache PDFBox (2016) and Apache POI (2013). Tim holds a Ph.D. in Classical Studies, and in a former life, he was a professor of Latin and Greek.

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