NLP

A few thoughts following David Chalmers’s NeurIPS 2022 talk — I decided last minute (over halfway into its first day) to (virtually) attend the 2022 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Left on the day’s agenda was David Chalmer’s talk on language models and consciousness (Are Large Language Models Sentient?), which I would have chosen to watch even if…

Using conversational analysis to explore intergroup linguistic coordination on Reddit — Conversations are critical to our political and civic institutions, communities, and families. However, limited Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been devoted to studying conversations, focusing instead on individual pieces of text. There are a few unique challenges related to the NLP of conversations: conversations unfold over time,

Hello there! General Kanobi talks about sentiment analysis this week. We all know it sounds pretty cool. Reign over social media, have fluffy, loyal customers, and get public opinion steer sheeple. And bingo! You are the dark elite, ruling Cognito INC. But yes tbh. It‘s cool stuff. And if you…

Vectors — The Machine Learning Perspective Vectors are commonly used in machine learning as they lend a convenient way to organise data. There’s almost no ML model where vectors aren’t used at some point in the project lifecycle. Often one of the very first steps in making a machine learning model is vectorizing the data. What is a Vector ? Physics…

NLP unleashed: unleashing the power of natural language processing. Welcome to our fifth blog in the series of NLP Unlocked! In this blog, we will be discussing Named Entity Recognition (NER). NER is a crucial part of natural language processing (NLP) that involves identifying and classifying named entities in a…

SOAP notes, or progress notes, are the part of a patient’s medical record where healthcare professionals record a concise yet comprehensive summary of the patient’s clinical status during the course of a hospitalization or medical encounter. A well written clinical SOAP note may arguably be one of the most effective…

After the presale ticket sales opened for Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour — her first tour since 2018 — a mad rush ensued, leading to “historically unprecedented demand” that snapped up 2 million tickets, the most tickets ever sold for one artist in a day. The aftermath, termed “Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster…

Text classification is an interesting part of machine learning and natural language processing that is used in business and everyday life to determine the sentiment of a text. For example, a company can use machine learning to determine whether customer reviews are positive or not. Machine learning models may now…