Applied NLP

Let's start the year with a couple of interesting talks about industrial NLP applications! We will get together at Meltwater's Budapest office with pizza and beer sorrounded by NLP fans.

Schedule:

• 18:30 - 19:00 Mingling

• 19:00 - 20:00 Presentations + Q&A

• 20:00 Pizza and beer

Presentations:

• Introducing Meltwater (http://www.meltwater.com/uk/)

• Laura Mihályi: Zurvey (https://zurvey.io/), Online text analysis tool for business users

• Babak Rasolzadeh: NLP and Data Science at Meltwater

There will be a video recording which will be shared afterwards.

Abstracts

Zurvey (https://zurvey.io/), Online text analysis tool for business users

Simplicity vs special cases: with this new product at Neticle our goal was to prepare a detailed text analysis with 5 clicks on large amount of text. We show how could we solve this issue and what are the limitations of this kind of simplicity.

NLP and Data Science at Meltwater

Meltwater is a Business Intelligence company of +1000 individuals spread across ~60 offices in ~30 countries with over 26,000 clients. At Meltwater we see ourselves as a Outside Insights company, meaning we seek to deliver similar type of business analytics & insights as traditional CRM dashboards and ERP systems used to, except by leveraging data outside the firewall (social media, news, blogs etc.) we believe the insights can be much more decisive and predictive for our clients business. Part of the challenge with this is of course structuring the unstructured data out there. This is why the Data Science team at Meltwater has the mission to ingest, categorize, label, classify, and a whole range of other enrichments on the content that we crawl in order to index it properly in our big data architecture and make it available for our insights dashboard. We do these enrichments in +17 languages.

Babak Rasolzadeh is the Director of Data Science & NLP at Meltwater and has a team of 24 engineers on this team. Prior to Meltwater, Babak was the co-founder of OculusAI, a computer vision start-up in Sweden, that was sold to Meltwater in 2013. He holds a PhD in Computer Vision, from KTH in Sweden, and has worked on things ranging from self-driving cars to humanoid robots and mobile object recognition. He is an advisor for several startups here in US and Sweden.