What are the top three barriers to better machine learning models? Annotating data, annotating data, and annotating data. Okay, so it’s not that simple, but producing quality training data to produce accurate models takes up the lion’s share of human labor and time in the entire process. This includes collecting and cleaning data, making sure […]
Tag: Machine Learning
What Does It Mean to Support “Persian” Text Analytics
What about Farsi, Dari, and Tajik? The modern Persian language has a lengthy history, with spoken roots going back 4,000-5,000 years. Since then, the language has evolved enormously in response to geopolitical events, technological advancements, and cultural blending to create the language spoken by 110 million people today. Rosette 1.10.1 recently added Persian sentiment analysis […]
How Will AI and Machine Learning Enhance Anticipatory Intelligence?
A sneak peek at #HLTCon 2017 “I see…practical anticipatory intelligence for your agency in your future…” Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their ilk are ready for national security applications (of which anticipatory intelligence is something of a holy grail), posits Charlie Greenbacker. As VP, Analytics at In-Q-Tel, a strategic investor of the U.S. intelligence and […]
Minds Converge: A Machine Learning Meeting in Toulon
Basis Technology R&D presents at the International Conference on Learning Representations in France The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is an annual gathering of leading machine learning experts working in both industry and academia. This year’s conference was held from April 24-26 in Toulon, France. ICLR focuses on a broad range of subjects, with […]
Notes from the Lab: Fueling New Research into Machine Learning with Wikidata
Basis Technology R&D team pioneers new technique and open sources WikiSem500, a dataset for multilingual word embedding evaluation The most time consuming and expensive aspect of machine learning research is data preparation—aggregation and cleaning—and every data scientist has been frustrated by it. However the importance of good, testing data makes it hard to cut corners. […]
Listening to customers is good for business
Listening to what customers are saying to your sales reps in social media and in product reviews is not just being customer-friendly, it’s good business: 78% of consumers have bailed on a transaction or not made an intended purchase because of a poor service experience. —American Express Survey, 2011 It takes 12 positive experiences to […]