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NLP/Text Analytics
Level Up: spaCy NLP for the Win

Level Up: spaCy NLP for the Win

ModelingNLP/Text AnalyticsEast 2020spaCyposted by ODSC Community February 21, 2020

Kimberly is a speaker for ODSC East 2020! Be sure to check out her talk, “Level Up: Fancy NLP with Straightforward Tools,” there! Natural language processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence in which computers extract information from written or spoken human language.  This field has experienced a... Read more
Introduction to Spark NLP: Foundations and Basic Components

Introduction to Spark NLP: Foundations and Basic Components

ModelingNLP/Text AnalyticsTools & LanguagesEast 2020Spark NLPposted by ODSC Community January 9, 2020

Veysel is a speaker for ODSC East 2020 this April 13-17! Be sure to check out his talk, “Spark NLP for Healthcare: Lessons Learned Building Real-World Healthcare AI Systems,” there! * This is the first article in a series of blog posts to help Data Scientists and NLP practitioners... Read more
The Most Influential NLP Research of 2019

The Most Influential NLP Research of 2019

Academic ResearchFeatured PostNLP/Text AnalyticsResearch2019posted by Daniel Gutierrez, ODSC December 31, 2019

Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important technologies to arise in recent years. Specifically, 2019 has been a big year for NLP with the introduction of the revolutionary BERT language representation model. There are a large variety of underlying tasks and machine learning models powering NLP... Read more
Text Classification in Python

Text Classification in Python

ModelingNLP/Text AnalyticsPythonTools & LanguagesText Classificationposted by Miguel Fernández Zafra November 12, 2019

This article is the first of a series in which I will cover the whole process of developing a machine learning project. This one focuses on training a supervised learning text classification model in Python. The motivation behind writing these articles is the following: as a learning data scientist who has... Read more
9 Organizations and People Leading the NLP Field

9 Organizations and People Leading the NLP Field

ModelingNLP/Text Analyticsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC November 6, 2019

Got a keen interest in where NLP is headed? Who doesn’t? It’s one of the most exciting developments we have in AI, and it’s making waves in every industry imaginable. If you’re trying to keep up with all the advancements, we’ve got nine leaders in NLP you need to... Read more
What do Data Scientists and Decision Makers Need to Know About Google’s BERT

What do Data Scientists and Decision Makers Need to Know About Google’s BERT

ModelingNLP/Text Analyticsbertposted by Ava Burcham, ODSC October 4, 2019

Any data scientist will tell you that one of the most challenging parts of natural language processing projects is the lack (or shortage) of training data. With deep learning, this has been semi-solved, but now the problem can be too much data—up to millions or even billions of training... Read more
State-of-the-Art Natural Language Understanding at Scale

State-of-the-Art Natural Language Understanding at Scale

ModelingNLP/Text Analyticsnatural language understandingNLPnluposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 3, 2019

For many of you in data science, natural language processing is a critical component of your projects. David Talby of Pacific.ai is here to introduce Apache Spark’s new NLP library and outline how it can facilitate your NLP pipeline for higher accuracy and faster results using the same amount... Read more
Building a Natural Language Question & Answer Search Engine

Building a Natural Language Question & Answer Search Engine

ConferencesModelingNLP/Text AnalyticsODSC SpeakerWest 2019posted by Adam Spannbauer October 2, 2019

Didn’t have time to read the book for the big quiz?  Why not build a system to answer the questions for you? Using the architecture pictured below we can build out a framework that can accept natural language questions as a query and answer the question using a corpus... Read more
What Businesses Should Know About Speech Technologies

What Businesses Should Know About Speech Technologies

Business + ManagementCareer InsightsConferencesModelingNLP/Text AnalyticsBusinesslanguage processingNLPspeech technologyposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 23, 2019

One of the top workshops at ODSC West last year (2018) was a talk by Omar Tawakol, the founder of Voicea. His company created a voice assistant that transformed meetings by handling lower order tasks like note-taking. Cisco acquired Voicea, most likely to integrate it into Webex as part... Read more
Do Android Composers Dream of Electric Keyboards?

Do Android Composers Dream of Electric Keyboards?

ConferencesModelingNLP/Text AnalyticsODSC Speakercreative aicreativitylanguage processingNLPposted by Joseph Blue September 13, 2019

Editor’s Note: If you’re interested in the idea of AI with a dream of electric keyboards, see Joseph’s talk “The Soul of a New AI” at ODSC Europe 2019. My journey in AI begins with grammar. Raised in a mathematical home, I think I was discovering prime numbers when... Read more
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