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The Promise of Retrofitting: Building Better Models for Natural Language Processing

Blogs from ODSC Speakers Conferences Featured Post Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Machine Learning NLPposted by Catherine Havasi March 15, 2019

Editor’s note: Catherine is a speaker for the upcoming ODSC East 2019 this April 30-May 3! Be sure to check out her talk, “Adding Context and Cognition to Modern NLP Techniques.” OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy famously said, “I don’t have to actually experience crashing my car into... Read more

Business Applications of AI-Powered NLP

Business + Management Conferences Featured Post Accelerate AI NLPposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC March 8, 2019

It’s difficult enough to teach people language, not to mention machines, and for this reason, language proficiency for computers is a moving target. People in the industry have struggled for years with the question of how to get more meaningful data into the hands of those... Read more

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

Combining Millions of Products Into One Marketplace Using Computer Vision and NLP

Featured Post Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Computer Vision NLPposted by Ali Vanderveld February 27, 2019

ShopRunner is an e-commerce company that receives feeds of product data from over 140 different retailer partners, including large department stores and retailers that specialize in clothing, electronics, appliances, nutritional products, and more. We present this marketplace to our members using both a web-based platform and... 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

NLP — Building a Question Answering model

Modeling NLP/Text Analytics NLPposted by Priya Dwivedi September 3, 2018

I recently completed a course on NLP through Deep Learning (CS224N) at Stanford and loved the experience. Learnt a whole bunch of new things. For my final project I worked on a question answering model built on Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD). In this blog, I want... Read more