Using a Genetic Algorithm to classify feature-sparse data with Wine-Searcher.com
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John Buckwell - Wine-Searcher.com
Did you know that the world's largest wine and liquor search engine is based in Auckland?
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Wine-Searcher (https://www.wine-searcher.com/) faces a seemingly impossible text classification problem with a very large number of classes, sparse training data, badly behaved query data and an ambitious accuracy target.
A genetic algorithm has proved more successful than all previous approaches for classifying wine names that merchants include on price lists into a catalogue with hundred thousands of wines.
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John Buckwell is a DevOps manager at Wine-Searcher, leading teams developing website front-end, mobile app, back-office systems and artificial intelligence applications. Special interest in natural language processing as applied to wine.
Industry Highlight: Jenny Cheng - Just Roboser
The legal profession will undergo fundamental shifts as technology has a greater impact on how lawyers work. AI and smart technology can also facilitate access to justice for many people who are unable to afford legal services. To this end, Jenny has partnered up with a Law Professor from the University of Auckland to create a robot lawyer. In this Industry Highlight, we open the conversation on how AI applications can be used in the law.
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Jenny Cheng completed her law degree at the University of Auckland Law School last year. She has been published in the New Zealand Law Journal, has overseas work experience at an international law firm and in October will guest lecture at a Master of Laws course. Jenny has a passion for tech innovation, business and currently works full-time at a LegalTech startup.
Jenny provides these links for our interest:
• https://hbr.org/2016/10/robots-will-replace-doctors-lawyers-and-other-professionals
• http://www.nzherald.co.nz/university-of-auckland/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503679&objectid=11543582
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/06/chatbot-donotpay-refugees-claim-asylum-legal-aid
X-Triage
We'll also give an update on the progress on X-Triage (http://bit.do/x-triage), our open-source collaboration in the medical field. Key contributor, Soren Bouma (https://sorenbouma.github.io/), will join us for that.
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Venue sponsored by AUT
Catering sponsored by Wine-Searcher.com
Thanks a bunch!
Using a Genetic Algorithm to classify feature-sparse data with Wine-Searcher.com