Teaching Machines to Read for Fun and Profit

This month we have Gary Kazantsev, who runs the R&D Machine Learning group at Bloomberg, presenting "Teaching Machines to Read for Fun and Profit."

Gary and crew will give a broad overview of the machine learning problems being tackled at Bloomberg today, and then talk in detail about a specific project: price impact analysis of financial news.

Bio:

Gary Kazantsev runs the R&D Machine Learning group at Bloomberg LP, leading projects in the areas of computational linguistics and machine learning such as sentiment analysis, market impact indicators, machine translation, text classification and predictive modeling of financial markets. He holds degrees in physics, mathematics and computer science from Boston University.