Language Science Talks: From text analytics to predictive analytics enhanced by language sciences

May 21, 2019, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

ORCH 3074 6363 Agronomy Rd, Vancouver

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Data Science Institute Director and UBC Computer Science Professor Raymond Ng will present this talk. 

In the first half of this talk, he will give a short overview of some of the research he has done on analyzing various types of text data. This would include sentiment analysis and abstractive summarization. In the second half of the talk, he will discuss how to build predictive models based on text and data of various kinds. He will use examples on identifying patients with emotional needs, and stratifying children who are at risk of committing suicide.  Finally, he will speculate on how language sciences can enhance predictive models that are purely data-driven.

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We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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