
While the term ‘Âé¶¹Ó°Òô ecosystem’ is often utilized, the concept is rarely quantified. Oak Ridge National Lab conducted a ground-breaking application of natural language processing, link analysis and other computational techniques to transform text and numerical data into metrics on clean energy Âé¶¹Ó°Òô activity and geography for the U.S. Department of Energy. The project demonstrates that a machine-assisted methodology gives the user a replicable method to rapidly identify, quantify and characterize clean energy Âé¶¹Ó°Òô ecosystems.