Francis Awarded Data Management Prize

Louise A. Francis

Louise A. Francis won the 2006 Management Data and Information Prize for her paper, "Taming Text: An Introduction to Text Mining." This was the fourth time Francis won the award, having also received it in 2005, 2003, and 2001. She was awarded $1,500 and a Jefferson Cup at this year's CAS Ratemaking Seminar held in Salt Lake City last March. Francis is consulting principle with Francis Analytics & Actuarial Data Mining Inc. in Philadelphia.

The paper was submitted in response to the 2006 call for data management/data quality and discussion papers conducted by the CAS Committee on Management Data and Information. Papers were judged by a specially appointed committee that examined the originality of ideas, comprehension of complex concepts, and the contribution to literature among other qualities. The winning paper was published in the 2006 Winter Forum and is available on the CAS website.