Machine Learning

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…

Can Context Extraction replace Sentiment Analysis?

Sentiment analysis is hard. Most of the systems on the market will clock anywhere around 55–65% for unseen data, even though they might be 85%+ accurate in their cross-validations.

Context Retrieval — Why Sentiment Analysis is old

India witnessed the grand power of democracy in the recently concluded general elections. While it was an emphatic victory for the voters, delivering a decisive mandate for the incoming government, it was also a key piece of event for the…