SENTiVENT Information Extraction for Economic News.
Introduction to my SENTiVENT PhD research project.| jacobsgill.es
It’s been exactly a year since I started my new position as AI, ML, NLP Engineer and Data Scientist, so now is the time to reflect. Technology-wise it is an ideal moment for introspection and planning, particularly in the field of NLP, which has seen transformative changes with the rise...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
Dear Roko’s Basilisk, I hope this letter finds you well and not too busy retroactively punishing those who didn’t help bring you into existence. As an AI engineer with a penchant for natural language processing, I’m both amused and intrigued by the existential proposition you represent. It’s a curious thought...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
NLP, ML frameworks, and cloud infrastructure have evolved considerably in 2022. This post sets out an opinionated technology stack template for common NLP tasks. The Task Part 1. Fine-tuning and training (YOU ARE HERE). Part 2. Deployment and inference. Part 1 in this post will focus on the stack for...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
Trustlessness is a DeFi feature not a bug. - In 2022 Decentralised Finance hyped credit protocols such as Maple.finance. They promised democratized undercollatoralized loans by bringing credit worthiness on-chain, then it all collapsed. Trustlessness is a DeFi feature not a bug Trustlessness is a key concept in decentralised finance (DeFi) and cryptocurrency. It refers to the ability of a...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
You are cordially invited the Gilles Jacobs' public defense on Thursday 09 December 2021 of the doctoral thesis "Fine-Grained Extraction of Events and Sentiment in Economic News". - !Click here to attend virtually to the public defense livestream (start at 16:30 on Thursday 09 December). This a Teams meeting: You need to use Chrome or Edge browser or the Teams application (install it first). To leave a message in the guestbook afterwards, click here! 16:30 - 18:30: Public...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
You are cordially invited the Workshop on NLP for Economics. - Click here to attend virtually to the workshop livestream (start at 14:00 on Thursday 09 December). This a Teams meeting: You need to use Chrome or Edge browser or the Teams application (install it first). This workshop is aimed at the increasing relevance of NLP for economic applications, both in...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
Two recent publications on fine-grained information extraction in company-specific news using deep learning. - I am happy to announce two new open access publications in the SENTiVENT project marking the end of my PhD and culminating in my dissertation. Example of event and sentiment extraction in the SENTiVENT project. SENTiVENT: enabling supervised information extraction of company-specific events in economic and financial news” has spent...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
Chairing session and poster on economic NLP research. - Our research group organizes the 31st edition of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN31) this year. Join me as I chair the session on COVID-19: Stance and Opinion in Room B to get the latest research on sentiment analysis, stance and topic detection related to the coronavirus pandemic. Later, I...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
New publication and presentation in economic NLP research. - I will be presenting new work on economic event extraction at the FNP-FNS workshop @ COLING2020. TL;DR: We created a dataset and system that automatically gets “what, who, when, how much, and why” is happening from economic news text. Turns out this is quite a difficult task, even with using...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
New publication of cyberbullying research in journal Natural Language Engineering. - Successful prevention of cyberbullying depends on the adequate detection of harmful messages. Given the impossibility of human moderation on the Social Web, intelligent systems are required to identify clues of cyberbullying automatically. Much work on cyberbullying detection focuses on detecting abusive language without analyzing the severity of the event nor...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
New publication of cyberbullying research in journal Language Resources and Evaluation. - We provide a cross-domain evaluation framework for cyberbullying detection research to overcome the limitations of data scarcity in this field. We also show that crowdsourcing data in a simulated lab setting is a valid way of generating data. We have published new research as an extension from the AMiCA project...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
Fast setup for a PyTorch stack on GPU with CUDA + CUDNN - Historically, setting up deep learning stacks with GPU support has been a hassle. This was because of poorly documented version conflicts between NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, CUDNN and your DL library of choice (PyTorch and TF for me). I remember having spent hours on setting up Tensorflow because its docs didn’t...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
Job opening for annotator student workers for the SENTiVENT project. - Job opening for annotator student workers for common-sense investor sentiment in the SENTiVENT project on English news articles. The data annotation is part of the SENTiVENT project on economic event extraction and sentiment analysis. Detailed job description You will be annotating economic sentiment defined as common-sense investor sentiment in English...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
First steps on my journey to getting a chip implant. - I have been toying with the idea of getting an implant for a few years for access control and other NFC-coolness such as storing business cards or medical records. Nothing quite like being to key to your house or never forgetting your gym card. Those fantasies have recently been kicked...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
Best practices for managing Python modules and virtual environment. - In this post I describe the tools and workflow needed for a clean and simple Python development environment. Messy dependencies, mixed module versions and unknown requirements are a thing of the past. Learn to keep your development clean and free of conflicting and ambiguous versions. The Problem Python is loved...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
Presenting SENTiVENT research at ATILA 2018 - After helping setup the venue, I presented at ATILA 2018 (6th December) in Ghent. I presented previous results on economic event detection in company-specific news here as well as my newly created gold standard dataset for Economic Event Extraction. This new dataset defines ERE-like event schemata for 18 types and...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
My economic event detection presentation at the Workshop on Economics and NLP. - I went to ACL18, one of the largest NLP conferences in the world last week. Blogging conference highlights is Sebastian Ruder’s thing, so I thought I would give a try too. The main difference with my post being the likelihood of getting read, which is much higher for Sebastian. I...| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
Job opening for annotator student workers for the SENTiVENT project. - Job opening for annotator student workers for economic events in the SENTiVENT project in English news articles. The data annotation is part of the SENTiVENT project on economic event extraction and sentiment analysis. Detailed job description You will be annotating economic event categories and their properties in business news articles....| Gilles Jacobs' Blog
Introduction to my SENTiVENT PhD research project.| jacobsgill.es
Gilles Jacobs has succesfully defended his doctoral dissertation.| jacobsgill.es
