Natural Language Processing Archives

Linguistics In NLP: Why So Complex?

Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Conferences Natural Language Processing NLPposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC March 1, 2019

Natural language processing has many applications across both business and software development, but roadblocks in human language have made text challenging to analyze and replicate. Why can’t computers seem to get it exactly right? Mariana Romanyshyn from Grammarly sheds light on why and discusses what you... Read more

Word Embedding and Natural Language Processing

Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Natural Language Processing word embeddingposted by Mayank Kejriwal February 26, 2019

Editor’s note: Check out Mayank’s talk at ODSC East 2019 this April 30 to May 3 in Boston, “Let’s Embed Everything!“ Researchers who work with the nuts and bolts of deep neural networks (or even shallow neural networks, like skip-gram) know that the success of these methods can be... Read more

Introduction to Clinical Natural Language Processing

Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Healthcare Natural Language Processing West 2019posted by Andrew Long February 25, 2019

Andrew is a speaker for ODSC West 2019! Be sure to check out his talk, “Healthcare NLP with a doctor’s bag of notes,” this November in San Francisco! Doctors have always written clinical notes about their patients — originally, the notes were on paper and were... Read more

Essential NLP Tools, Code, and Tips

Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Natural Language Processing NLPposted by Diego Lopez Yse February 1, 2019

In a previous article, we introduced the influential impact of natural language processing (NLP) in different industries and explained the way this discipline is reshaping several fields, yet facing huge challenges on its way. The main drawbacks we face these days with NLP tools relate to... Read more

An Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Introduction Natural Language Processing NLPposted by Diego Lopez Yse January 30, 2019

Everything we express (either verbally or in written) carries huge amounts of information. The topic we choose, our tone, our selection of words, everything adds some type of information that can be interpreted and value can be extracted from it. In theory, we can understand and... Read more

NLP is Changing More Than Just Business: Applications of NLP in History, Art, and Higher Ed

Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Natural Language Processing NLPposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC January 28, 2019

Natural language processing (NLP) is affecting more than just your chatbot experience. It has broad-reaching applications in any field where data is king. Here’s a hint: that’s every field. You may not expect NLP to transform fields outside business and finance, but considering how much data... Read more

The Need For Mission Critical Text Analytics

Business + Management Government Machine Learning Natural Language Processing NLPposted by ODSC Team January 8, 2019

“There’s simply too much textual information available for human beings to find or analyze it by themselves. Machines must help,” said Chris Biow, the senior vice president of Global Public Sector at Basis Technology. A 20-year text analytics veteran, Biow started his career in the space... Read more

Real-Life Robocop: How NLP Is Fighting Financial Crime

Business + Management Natural Language Processing NLPposted by ODSC Team December 12, 2018

“There used to be a point where chatbots could barely understand slang. Now, they’re able to recognize numerous languages and styles.” The amazing progress artificial intelligence has made in human language processing fascinates Kfir Bar, chief scientist at Basis Technology. For years, Bar has explored the... Read more

Why Word Vectors Make Sense in Natural Language Processing

NLP/Text Analytics Natural Language Processingposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC November 16, 2018

If you’re up-to-date with progress in natural language processing research, you’ve probably heard of word vectors in word2vec. Word2vec is a neural network configuration that ingests sentences to learn word embeddings, or vectors of continuous numbers representing individual words. [Related Article: Watch: State of the Art Natural Language Understanding... Read more

An Idiot’s Guide to Word2vec Natural Language Processing

NLP/Text Analytics Natural Language Processingposted by Spencer Norris, ODSC November 15, 2018

Word2vec is arguably the most famous face of the neural network natural language processing revolution. Word2vec provides direct access to vector representations of words, which can help achieve decent performance across a variety of tasks machines are historically bad at. For a quick examination of how... Read more