December 4-6, 2017
Vancouver, Canada
Syntax Isn't Everything: NLP For Rubyists
Natural Language Processing is an interesting but complicated field of
computing. The way humans use language is nuanced and deeply context
sensitive. This talk will give an introduction to the field of NLP using
Ruby. It will cover the history and unique challenges of this field and
then give a demonstration of tools that exist that make NLP available to
everyone.
computing. The way humans use language is nuanced and deeply context
sensitive. This talk will give an introduction to the field of NLP using
Ruby. It will cover the history and unique challenges of this field and
then give a demonstration of tools that exist that make NLP available to
everyone.
Aja Hammerly
Aja lives in Seattle where she is a Developer Advocate at Google and a member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. Her favorite languages are Ruby and Prolog. She also loves working with large piles of data. In her free time she enjoys skiing, cooking, knitting, and long coding sessions on the beach.
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