NLP with spaCy in R

Hi Everyone!

This month Ana Mamatelashvili will be joining us to give a seminar on NLP with spaCy in R!

There are many natural language processing libraries out there and each has it's own advantages. One of Ana's favourites is spaCy because of it's speed and user-friendliness. In this talk she will discuss how to leverage spaCy's powerful features with the spacyr package and combine them with other packages such as tidytext, quanteda and coreNLP to do natural language processing in R. She will discuss use cases for tokenisation, lemmatisation, extraction of linguistic features and named entities as well as Coreference Resolution.

Ana graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a PhD in mathematics. Since 2010 she has been teaching mathematics and doing research in set-theoretic topology as well as graph theory and continuum theory in the University of Pittsburgh, Auburn University and the University of Melbourne. Between November 2018 and March 2019 Ana has worked with the University of Melbourne WebWork research team developing online homework content for mathematics courses. She became interested in data science a couple of years ago when she started learning to code in R and Python and ended up working on a few data science side projects. In March 2019 Ana joined Eliiza's data science team. She is particularly interested in Natural Language Processing.

This seminar will be hosted by our wonderful sponsor Nous. Please arrive from 6pm for a 6:30pm start to the seminar. Pizza and drinks will be provided.

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

R-Ladies Melbourne