Online Webinar - Introducing Spark NLP: State of the art NLP at Scale

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Guest Speakers: David Talby, CTO at Pacific AI

• Description:

Natural language processing is a key component in many data science systems that must understand or reason about text. Common use cases include question answering, paraphrasing or summarization, sentiment analysis, natural language BI, language modeling, and disambiguation. Building such systems usually requires combining three types of software libraries: NLP annotation frameworks, machine learning frameworks, and deep learning frameworks. This talk introduces the NLP library for Apache Spark. It natively extends the Spark ML pipeline API's which enabling zero-copy, distributed, combined NLP & ML pipelines, which leverage all of Spark's built-in optimizations. Benchmarks and design best practices for building NLP, ML and DL pipelines on Spark will be shared. The library implements core NLP algorithms including lemmatization, part of speech tagging, dependency parsing, named entity recognition, spell checking and sentiment detection. The talk will demonstrate using these algorithms to build commonly used pipelines, using PySpark on notebooks that will be made publicly available after the talk.

• Speaker’s Profile:

David Talby is a chief technology officer at Pacific AI, helping fast-growing companies apply big data and data science techniques to solve real-world problems in healthcare, life science, and related fields. Previously, he was with Microsoft’s Bing Group, where he led business operations for Bing Shopping in the US and Europe. Earlier, he worked at Amazon both in Seattle and the UK, where he built and ran distributed teams that helped scale Amazon’s financial systems. David holds a PhD in computer science and master’s degrees in both computer science and business administration.