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Topic

Start of the art natural language understanding in healthcare

Abstract

The ability of software to reason, answer questions and intelligently converse about clinical notes, patient stories or biomedical papers has risen dramatically in the past few years. This talk is intended for practicing data scientists and software engineers, and covers state of the art natural language processing, deep learning, and machine learning libraries in this space. We'll share notebooks & benchmarks from real projects using the Spark NLP open-source software library on which some of the best performing models have been implemented. The covered use cases will include clinical data abstraction, patient risk prediction, negation & temporal scope detection, topic modeling, and research paper classification.

Profile

David Talby is a chief technology officer at John Snow Labs, helping healthcare & life science companies put AI to good use. David is the creator of Spark NLP – the world’s most widely used natural language processing library in the enterprise. He has extensive experience building and running web-scale software platforms and teams – in startups, for Microsoft’s Bing in the US and Europe, and to scale Amazon’s financial systems in Seattle and the UK. David holds a PhD in computer science and master’s degrees in both computer science and business administration.