NLP study session 1

Following a few recent suggestions, we are organizing a study meeting about NLP, possibly a first on a series.

This event is related to the upcoming ds4clj course – it is part of our exploration of topics that may later become part of the course.

cc @ryanorsinger @Yi_Lin @Webdev_Tory @elias @MooersLab @Eppy @ritchie_cai @simongray @maxxcan @adham

Assumed background

  • The first half should be useful for a general curious audience with a programming background.
  • The second half should be useful for curious Clojure developers.

Agenda

  • 1st hour – general audience:
    • Basic intro to linguistics
    • NLP in Python with spaCy
  • 2nd hour – Clojure audience:
    • Using Python & spaCy from Clojure through Libpython-clj
    • Discussion

Why spaCy?

spaCy is not the only way to access linguistics & NLP from Clojure (see DataLinguist by @simongray for a JVM-based option).

However, in this session we will focus on spaCy, for a few reasons:

  • We want to make half of the session friendly to our friends of diverse tech backgrounds.
  • Beginning with a Python example and then wrapping with Libpython-clj is a convenient path from a Python-friendly session to the joy of Clojure.
  • spaCy, with its declarative nature, is a good example of where Clojure’s data-oriented programming can make things joyful.
  • Personally, I have recently started feeling comfortable with it.

Moderator

@kiramclean – a software engineer and the author+organizer of the coming Clojure data cookbook project

Presenters

  • Dimid Duchovny – a data scientist & software developer with a background in Linguistics & NLP, among other things
  • Daniel Slutsky (@daslu) – a general data scientist & Clojurian

Length

The official part will be 120 minutes long, with a short break in the middle.
Sometimes some of us like to stay longer and chat.

Platform

Video call

Zoom link: Launch Meeting - Zoom

Recording

Most of the meeting will be recorded and shared publicly.
We will possibly share the recording publicly.

Joining

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I’m looking forward to this study session! Thank you for putting this together.

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See you tomorrow!

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