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Topic

Taking Advantage of Text for Medical, Financial and Other Modeling

Abstract

Unstructured free text is plentiful and valuable, for example: Doctor's notes, news stories, call-center notes. We would like to take advantage of such text for warnings of serious medical conditions, classifying reports, and identifying customers likely to leave for a competitor. Text can be hard to use for predictive modeling, but in some respects it is also easier to use than structured numeric data. This talk will give a high-level overview of opportunities and challenges in using text in predictive models, and survey technical approaches for representing and modeling text.

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VP for Research Textician