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NORMA (NICE-ONS Recommendation Matching Algorithm)

"NORMA is an internal tool that allows staff at NICE to search NICE published guidance and recommendations quickly by undertaking a simple keyword or recommendation search."

Publicly known

  • Owner: NICE
  • Vendor: Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Undisclosed

  • Model architecture
  • Model performance benchmarks
  • Training data provenance

Who is actually being paid

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Role

The ONS team worked with NICE to implement the Natural Language Processing (NLP) solution. The solution has since been transferred fully to NICE, and managed and maintained by NICE staff.

Procurement procedure

NORMA was developed through a collaboration between NICE and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Data Science Campus (DSC) as part of the DSC’s objectives to deliver data science projects for public good, or data science skills, assess non-traditional data sources and develop data science methods to provide insight for decision-makers. The services of the DSC were not procured, but provided to NICE without charge in the spirit of collaboration.

Data access terms

The ONS DSC were given full and unrestricted access to all publicly available NICE publications via the NICE syndication API. There were no terms or conditions placed on their use of the data.

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Source: ATRS record · last updated Tue Dec 17 2024