Lecture: Facebook Computational Linguist Yuri Yerastov


Monday, December 4, 2017
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

 

Location:
Faculty Commons (Room 286), J. Paul Leonard Library
Sponsor:
Stat CORR Methodology and Multivariate Analysis
Contact:
Richard Harvey
Email:
Phone:
(415) 338-3478

 

The proliferation of digital media has made large amounts of textual data available to researchers. Access to this data has been facilitated by advances in web-scraping and natural language processing (NLP) technologies. In this presentation, Yerastov demonstrates techniques of information extraction from mass media databases. Lunch included.

 

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