Quotes tagged ‘NLP’

“Word embeddings or word vectors are a way for computers to understand what words mean in text written by people. The goal is to represent words as lists of numbers, where small changes to the numbers represent small changes to the meaning of the word. This is a technique that helps in building AI al…”

— Robert Speer, blog.conceptnet.io

“Can NLP replace Elasticsearch? No. They are not focused on solving the same problem.”

— Yuval Feinstein, quora.com

“We can infer another key advantage of Markov Models from this example. To express the probabilities of all possible states for any length of Markov Chain, we only need s^2 numbers stored, with ‘s’ representing the number of possible states.”

— Chris Natale, chrisnatale.info

“Markov Chain, an OMM is a way of estimating the probability of a future series of events using only the previous event for each item in the series as inference. If a data structure exhibits this behavior, we can say it possesses the Markov Property.”

— Chris Natale, chrisnatale.info

“Use conventional classification algorithms to classify substrings of document as ‘to be extracted’ or not.”

— Christopher Manning, web.stanford.edu

“For these algorithms to work, we need to select some features from text. Some of the commonly used features for NER are unigram, left and right bigrams and trigrams, part of speech tags, whether the word is capitalized or not, is the first character capitalized or not, whether the word is surrounded…”

— Jasneet Sabharwal, quora.com

“Posts are heterogeneous in form (video, images, audio, text) and consists of semi-structured data (e.g. a textual post has a title and a body, but the actual textual content is un-structured). Luckily enough, our users do a great job at summarizing the content of their posts with tags. As the distri…”

— Tumblr Engineering, engineering.tumblr.com

“DeepText is already being tested on some Facebook experiences. In the case of Messenger, for example, it is beginning to give us a better understanding of when someone might want to go somewhere. DeepText is used for intent detection and entity extraction to help realize that a person is not looking…”

— Ahmad Abdulkader, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Joy Zhang, code.facebook.com