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…
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a messy and difficult affair to handle. Preprocessing, machine learning, relationships, entities, ontologies and what not.
Word embeddings/representations — ever since they came in with great work of Mikolov et al…
Analytics is a wonderful industry to be in. I joined an analytics firm last year after my MBA. I loved my job and everything was fine till the day I realized that knowing equations or tools weren’t going to cut it.
Recently, I had the great opportunity to attend an advanced summer school at Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC), IIIT Hyderabad. To provide a background, the best work in the domain of NLP in India happens at two centres —…
A couple of days ago, IBM called upon data scientists all over the world to participate in a Twitter chat leading up to IBM Insight, a premier conference for data and analytics in October at Las Vegas.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…