Keep Calm and Deduplicate: Old-School ML in the Age of GenAI

Emil Bøje Lind Pedersen, DBC Digital A/S

In a world obsessed with GenAI, traditional machine learning (ML) still has tricks up its sleeve. 

This talk dives into the wild world of deduplicating library records. It touches on both the technology and human elements: from feature engineering to clustering, and the cultural quirks of annotation. Find out how to combine expert knowledge with simple algorithms, and what this teaches us about building reliable systems in any era.

Bio:
Emil has a decade of experience in applied machine learning from companies like Spotify, Telia and Klarna. He is currently part of the AI team at DBC Digital A/S, which handles search, recommendations and other metadata topics related to the Danish library systems