Episode 215: Mahir Morshed

🕑 1 hour 25 minutes

Dr. Mahir Morshed is a data scientist at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) in North Carolina. He is also an administrator on Wikidata and the Bengali-language Wikisource.

Links for some of the topics discussed:

• RENCI
  • Proto-Open Knowledge Network: FRINK
• Abstract Wikipedia
• Requests for comment/The future of Abstract Wikipedia
• "From Abstract Content to Concrete Text with Wikidata Lexemes" (talk by Mahir at Wikimania 2026)
• "Using Wikidata lexemes and items to generate text from abstract representations" (2024 paper by Mahir Morshed)
• Ninai statement construction system