You are invited to join us for a data science study session. On Monday, August 21, Bruno Gonalves, Moore-Sloan Fellow at NYU's Center for Data Science, will explain the intuition behind word embeddings & the word2vec family of algorithms.
The venue this month is provided by our friends at Lifion. We hope to see you there!
Registration for this event will open on Monday, August 7.
Word2vec in Theory & Practice
Word embeddings have received a lot of attention ever since Google researchers published word2vec in 2013. Their work demonstrated that embeddings learned by neural networks after "reading" a large corpus of text are able to preserve semantic relationships between words. As a result, this type of embedding started being studied in more detail & applied to more serious NLP & IR tasks such as summarization, query expansion, etc. In this talk we will cover the intuitions & algorithms underlying the word2vec family of algoritms & analyze in detail Tensorflow's word2vec implementation. IMPORTANT: Please use your FULL REAL NAME to register & bring your ID.
Speaker Biography:
Bruno Gonalves is currently a Moore-Sloan Fellow at NYU's Center for Data Science. With a background in Physics & Computer Science his career has revolved around the use of datasets from sources as diverse as Apache web logs, Wikipedia edits, Twitter posts epidemiological reports & Census data to analyze & model Human Behavior & Mobility. More recently he has focused on the application of machine learning & neural network techniques to analyze large geolocated datasets. He is the editor of "Social Phenomena: From Data Analysis to Models" (Springer, 2015) & a co-author of the forthcoming "Twitterology: The Social Science of Twitter" (Springer, 2018).
About Our Sponsor
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