Doug Burdick

Doug Burdick, a principal research staff member at IBM Research, specializes in making complex documents machine-readable. He discusses the fusion of NLP and computer vision to tackle PDF extraction challenges, especially for COVID-19 data. The conversation delves into innovative methods for effective table extraction and the importance of evaluation metrics to ensure accuracy. Doug emphasizes collaboration within research communities and the need for robust systems to advance understanding of complex, multi-modal data formats.