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How Does Text Become Data?
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Summary
Catherine Havasi, Rob Speer discuss and exemplify how to quantify Natural Language Processing with concept-based text understanding, modelling what people think about our world.
Bio
Dr. Catherine Havasi has been researching language and learning for nearly fifteen years. In addition to being CEO of Luminoso, she is a research scientist in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics at the MIT Media Lab. Rob Speer is an alumnus of the MIT Media Lab, and now brings his expertise in natural language processing to the CTO position at Luminoso.
About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.
Jan 15, 2014