Paul Verhaar is Lead Data Scientist with Sogeti Netherlands. In this webinar I interviewed him about Natural Language Processing, a specific field of Artifical Intelligence.
About Paul Verhaar
Paul has a passion for Natural Language Processing. He loves complex problems that kindle creativity and out-of-the-box thinking and projects with social impact.
He has a background in linguistics and New Media. Paul is always in for a chat on data science and/or the impact of technology on civilization. In his spare time, he is a pro-musician, avid motorcycle rider and single speed bike builder.
About the NLP webinar
This webinar will take you through the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and AI. How close are we to an AI that can understand the text? Natural Language Processing is on the rise after major breakthroughs since late 2019. Where exactly does NLP stand amidst the data science creations in the world of AI? And, how can we leverage these techniques on the ever-growing body of text data? We touched upon what NLP is, in what tech NLP is used, the NLP breakthrough(s), recent trends, future and 2 (Sogeti) applications leveraging state-of-the-art techniques.