Automated Understanding, the Foursquare Way

Join Hacks/Hackers NYC at 7 p.m. on April 3, when machine learning engineer Max Sklar presents a talk on natural language processing at Foursquare HQ.

Max will cover Foursquare's approach NLP. Specifically, he'll look at how Foursquare distinguishes positive and negative reviews, how they try to classify tips, and how they classify key phrases.

Max will also discuss the algorithms he uses (e.g., Bayesian classification, tokenization), his approaches to gathering training data, some of the common problems — and his solutions — that arise when applying natural language processing to his work.

To attend Automated Understanding, the Foursquare Way, RSVP today ($10, payable in advance) (http://meetupnyc.hackshackers.com/events/99458072/) to Hacks/Hackers NYC.

Refund policy: Cancel at least 24 hours before the event (that is, no later than 7 p.m. April 2) to receive a full refund. We cannot issue refunds after that.

More about Max: Max Sklar, machine learning engineer Foursquare, taught data structures (http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall10/V22.0102-004/index.html) at NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and has presented at QCon, RecSys and General Assembly.

Schedule:

6:30 p.m.: Doors, beer, pizza and socializing

~7:00 p.m.: Presentation by Max Sklar followed by Q&A

~8:00 p.m.: Additional networking and socializing

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