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Talent in AI: Introduction and Sourcing
Two weeks ago, I was one of the presenters in the launch of the AI Playbook created by David Kelnar and MMC (disclaimer: MMC is one of our investors). The playbook represents a holistic view of all aspects an organisation needs to consider to use and take advantage of AI....
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Open-source NLP: spaCy IRL 2019 in Berlin
SpaCy - a glimpse of the community’s first conference Necessity is the mother of all invention. Laziness not so, and it does not usually create an entire community. Yet in the case of Matthew Honnibal, a linguist by training, it was laziness to learn C++ to build the language models...
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Signal AI and Essex University KTP collaboration to visualise structure in text
We are delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for new graduates to solve real-world problems in NLP and data visualisation working closely with academic and industrial experts in these fields. About the project: Signal AI is in partnership with The University of Essex to develop insight extraction and visualisation techniques...
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Search Solutions 2017: the evolution of search and its implications (dealing with Fake News)
A review of 2017’s IRSG Search Solutions conference The amount of searchable content online coupled with the main monetisation technique in the web (advertising) has made better search tools a necessity to avoid the spread of misinformation and undesirable content. It is understandable that the focus of current commercial platforms...
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Long-tail Entities in News
Businesses often want to track mentions in the news of themselves, their spokespeople and their competitors, in order to maintain a competitive edge. To support this tracking in media monitoring platforms, sophisticated text analytics components are required. In particular, mentions of the different entities in the article’s text should be...
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Gendered pronouns in the UK press
The UK prides often itself on being a developed country which champions the achievements of women, both in the workplace and more generally. Despite this, opinions differ as to how effective initiatives like the Davies Review have been in improving female representation at the highest levels of business. Meanwhile, the...
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Comparing the Language of the Daily Mail and the Mail Online
The UK media landscape is divided between print and digital, but this schism rarely affects content in any meaningful sense. For many publishers, articles appear in both print and online editions with very minimal, if any, changes. However, certain publications have made a point of separating print editorial from their...