NLP WAVE

Choosing a laptop for machine learning : The Search — Part I

Few months ago, I quit my job to sort out certain mental cobwebs. “What next” is often a questions that bugs many millennials — and I am sure not an exception. Clarity of thought is often inspired from the moments spent out…

Introduction to Computational Linguistics

The content borrows heavily from lectures of Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma at IASNLP 2016 held at LTRC, Hyderabad, in collaboration with Google and IIIT. I was a participant at the advanced summer school, which dealt with varied topics in computational…

Impactful text analytics for smarter businesses

RATINGS ARE OVERRATED

‘Service is great, but the desserts are bad’’. Overall rating 4.5/5.

Many times we have gone into a restaurant alone or in a group, came out happy and still rated it a 3 or a…

Course Review — Data Science and Machine Learning Essentials

I recently completed an EdX course sponsored by Microsoft — Data Science and Machine Learning Essentials. It dealt with basics of Machine Learning and creating machine learning web services using Azure ML. I have been working…

Automated medical coding using NLP

In US healthcare industry, insurance providers and doctors play an important role — both in ensuring word class care and timely reimbursements for patients. Also, quick processing of the medical records are important for the patients, more so because the healthcare…

Web scraping + text analytics for competitive intelligence

In these series of case studies, I will showcase in brief the business problems I have worked on along with my team at Juxt Smart Mandate. These problems are mostly in the domain of natural language processing, information…

Enriched Data is the key, not Big Data

Big Data has been the “in-thing” for quite sometime now. The emergence has led to multiple technological breakthroughs and changed the way we think about storing and analyzing data. The fever has led to an extent where you might as well be living in the stone…