Ben Lee

@bcgl.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Longreads, Current Affairs, etc. 🌐 www.bcglee.com

A visual search for "redacted documents" showing a number of documents with heavy redactions.
A diagram showing the GovScape architecture, including the client, server, and databases.
An diagram showing the GovScape PDF pre-processing pipeline, including PDF identification, rendering, and semantification (including embedding generation).
A diagram showing the three central query methods within GovScape: semantic text search, visual search, and keyword search.
Search results for "tattered and worn map" showing that the results are accurate (most are tattered and worn).
https://github.com/hinxcode/digital-collections-explorer
Title slide for the public symposium “AI and the future of Holocaust research and memory,” hosted by the University of Washington.
An example of a mixed-input search, showing a map + the text "more grayscale," surfacing results with similar content, but grayscale.
A diagram showing our implementation of search for the maps, with developer input, user input, and outputs specified.