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September 11, 2018: Training & Tutorials
September 12–13, 2018: Keynotes & Sessions
New York, NY
Alex Thomas

Alex Thomas
Data Scientist, John Snow Labs

Alex Thomas is a data scientist at John Snow Labs. He’s used natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning with clinical data, identity data, and job data. He’s worked with Apache Spark since version 0.9 as well as with NLP libraries and frameworks including UIMA and OpenNLP.

Sessions

1:30pm–5:00pm Tuesday, 09/11/2018
Natural language understanding at scale with Spark NLP
Location: 1A 21/22 Level: Intermediate
Secondary topics:  Text and Language processing and analysis
David Talby (Pacific AI), Claudiu Branzan (Accenture), Alex Thomas (John Snow Labs)
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David Talby, Claudiu Branzan, and Alex Thomas lead a hands-on tutorial for scalable NLP using the highly performant, highly scalable open source Spark NLP library. You’ll spend about half your time coding as you work through four sections, each with an end-to-end working codebase that you can change and improve. Read more.