Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most interesting, yet challenging fields of artificial intelligence (AI). spaCy is the leading Python library for NLP, gaining popularity rapidly. Let’s take a closer look at spaCy, trying to figure out how it can be useful for accomplishing NLP tasks. What Is spaCy? spaCy is an open-source Python library for performing NLP...
Tag: Machine Learning
Converting Raw Text into SQL Data with spaCy
As the title suggests, this article covers how raw text can be converted into structured data. Before going any further, a word on the terminology used here is needed. In simple terms, raw text can be thought of as a set of tokens grouped into sentences, carrying information expressed in a natural language such as English. Put simply, raw text...
Do You Use Third Party Data Sets?
Many times when you see other data sets that you can use for your own applications, they’re about the weather in a location or traffic data. That type of thing. It seems like you have to wonder what you’d use that information for in your own applications. I usually eye these types of resources and think that while it sounds […]
How Do Systems Learn, When the Questions Aren’t Known?
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’re quickly gaining on having information that we can use to help address some of the issues going on in the world. Almost predictively. You can tell because so many time we’re able to look back on an incident and see the information bits that we known and draw conclusions about whatever is […]
We’re Just Getting Started with AI…
Remember, we’re dipping our toes in the proverbial pool at this point with AI. There are incredible things going on, and things we’re learning can be applied and learned from yet again. What strikes me is that we expect all of this to be perfect at such a “young” time in the technologies. Yesterday, the editorial was about AI and […]
Chain of Ownership, Data, and AI
Interesting points about the whole artificial intelligence thought process. It’s come up before that assuring the chain of ownership and who did what to information is critical when it comes to the trust of information. If you don’t know how numbers were derived, or who modified them since they were calculated, how can you trust them? I’ve felt this uneasiness […]
Machine Learning, AI, Automation in SQL Server, Oh My!
There has been quite a bit done on the intelligence front with SQL Server – as in built-in functionality and changes that will help you bring these tools not only to the environment, but also to your own applications. As one example, In-database Machine Learning in SQL Server 2017 – “You can start using Python-based in-database Machine Learning Services for production […]