Fran started her career as a writer and editor of dictionaries and thesauruses in the UK, and, as
technology evolved, she specialised in information architecture, search systems, and digital
archives, and more recently, the use of semantics in knowledge graphs and LLM (large
language models – like ChatGPT) applications. 
Having worked on reference publications including the Collins English Dictionary, Bloomsbury
Thesaurus, and Keesing’s Record of World Events, and as Taxonomy Manager for the BBC
Archive, she now lives in Montreal, Canada, and is the Senior Taxonomist for Expedia Group. She was the winner of the Taxonomy Practitioner of the Year Award in 2023.