Sep 9–12, 2019

Alberto Andreotti
Senior Data Scientist, John Snow Labs

Alberto Andreotti is a senior data scientist on the Spark NLP team at John Snow Labs, where he implements state-of-the-art NLP algorithms on top of Spark. He has a decade of experience working for companies including Motorola, Intel, and Samsung and as a consultant, specializing in the field of machine learning. Alberto has written lots of low-level code in C/C++ and was an early Scala enthusiast and developer. A lifelong learner, he holds degrees in engineering and computer science and is working on a third in AI. Alberto was born in Argentina. He enjoys the outdoors, particularly hiking and camping in the mountains of Argentina.

Sessions

4:00pm–4:40pm Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Location: LL21 C/D

Interpreting millions of patient stories with deep learned OCR and NLP

Models and Methods

Secondary topics: Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Health and Medicine, Machine Learning, Mobile Computing, IoT, Edge, Text, Language, and Speech

Stacy Ashworth (SelectData), Alberto Andreotti (John Snow Labs)

Much business data still exists as challenging scanned or snapped documents. Stacy Ashworth and Alberto Andreotti explore a real-world case of reading, understanding, classifying, and acting on facts extracted from such image files using state-of-the-art, open source, deep learning-based optical character recognition (OCR), natural language processing (NLP), and forecasting libraries at scale. Read more.