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An introduction to machine learning

Machine Learning is hot right now. Really hot. And it’s come a long way from where it was over two decades ago. In 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. This was a great achievement to mark the progress of the field, but chess is a relatively simple task and computers still struggled to be able to master more difficult tasks for another decade. Then, in the…
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Challenges in human name detection

When working with big data, it is often possible to automate the slow, mind-numbing information extraction tasks, for precisely the reason that they require little creative energy. One such automatable process is detecting, extracting, and resolving human names from text data. For example, an insurance company may want to automatically extract from call center notes the names of all parties involved in an accident. However, they process hundreds of thousands…
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What is sentiment analysis?

Sentiment Analysis is another buzzword that we hear more and more often, but may not entirely understand what it does or how to use it. Sentiment Analysis application in business offers benefits to both companies and customers, such as improving products and services, identifying strengths and weaknesses of the competition, as well as targeted advertising. Sentiment Analysis, also known as Sentiment Detection or Opinion Mining, is the classification of the…
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