Speaker: Paolo Délano Alonso, IT Architect, BMO Financial Group

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Knowledge Graph
Integrating Internal &
External Data
August 2020
Presented by: Paolo Delano

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This presentation was prepared by Paolo Delano in his
personal capacity. The content and opinions expressed in
this presentation are the author's own and do not reflect
the views, policies, opinions or otherwise of BMO Financial
Group.
Disclaimer

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Agenda
1 Company Profile
2 Challenge
3 Solution
4 Knowledge Graph Capabilities

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Company Profile

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BMO Bank of Montreal at a glance
As of January 31, 2020
8thlargest bank by
assets
million customers
globally
Years of
experience
12+ 203Billion in total assets
$880

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Challenge

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We need a modern approach to understand the relationship between enterprise data
and social media; that means integrating very different sets of data

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Click to edit Master title styleIntegrating sources with structured and unstructured data
Integration
Entity Extraction
Unstructured documents
mention entities, countries,
industries, etc. that could be
related to internal data
Sentiment
How do we measure the
sentiment of a social media
post?
Entity Matching
Relating to subjects mentioned
on social media
Data source overview
Each data source came with its own set of challenges
Portfolio Management Document Management Social MediaRelational Sources Unstructured Sources

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Company Facility
CountryParent
Company
Document
Organization
Collateral
Industry
Article
Guarantor
Graph
Model
Country

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Solution

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We solved the first challenge using a plugin and neo4j. We now had all
data sources connected
Neo4j Plugin
Tika
OpenNLP
React
NodeJS
Neo4j driver
Dashboard
Structured data
Unstructured data
Solution
Alert
Social Media

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Our graph model allowed us to quickly find obscure relationships
between relational sources and unstructured data

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Finding connections between relational and unstructured data
Media article
Company
Product
Commodity
Media article
Organization
Media article
Document
Guarantor
Company
Documents
Company
Product

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Thank You