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speaker_name: "Susan Li"

talk_title: "Do-it-yourself Natural Language Processing for makers"

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talk_tags:
- "Machine Learning & Data Science"



talk_abstract: "Susan Li walks you through deep learning methods for natural language processing (NLP) tasks using Python and open source libraries, using a live example. Methods include word2vec embedding, recurrent neural networks (RNN) and convolutional neural networks (CNN). This is a hands-on approach to framing a real-world problem to the underlying NLP tasks and building a NLP application using Deep Learning. If you are a data scientist or software developer with experience in Python who wants to develop natural language processing software, this talk is for you."

about_author: "I am Susan Li, the Sr. Data Scientist at Kognitiv where I specialize in machine learning and NLP. I’m passionate about helping organizations realize the potential of big data and advanced analytics, and helping individuals enhance skills in data literacy. I frequently write and speak about predictive analytics, machine learning and NLP for technical and general audience. In my free time, I can be found training for the next half marathon."

talk_metadata:

    - "**Date:** Saturday Nov. 16"

    - "**Location:** Clipper Room"

    - "**Begin time:** 10:30"

    - "**Duration:** 55 minutes"
    - "**Sign-up:** Please sign up for this tutorial on the <a href='https://github.com/pyconca/2019-wiki/wiki/tutorials' target='_blank'>wiki here.</a>"