Location
Virtual over Zoom
Series/Type
,
Dates
  • September 28, 2021 from 3:00pm to 4:00pm

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The Biostatistics Seminar Series presents:

“A Practical Introduction to Natural Language Processing” by Dr. Alistair Johnson, Hospital for Sick Children

Register: https://phesc.zoom.us/j/85065649610?pwd=ZEhaSXd2SWdPMjdueUdRU29pM2p3QT09

Abstract

This lecture will focus on the practical aspects of manipulating natural language for computation. It will include methods for representing natural language in computers (features, embeddings), applying classic approaches to preprocessing text (stemming, lemmatization), and incorporating context into these representations (n-grams, transformers). The lecture follows practical examples using synthetic and real text. The format is intended to be interactive; some experience running a Google Colab notebook (https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/intro.ipynb) his recommended.

Speaker’s Biosketch

Please see https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/johnson-alistair/ 
and https://alistairewj.github.io/

Film Review and Discussion: Indian Horse
SBHS Seminar: Dr. Brittany Charlton is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Population Medicine and at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology: “Reproductive health disparities among sexual and gender minority women.”
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Film Review and Discussion: Indian Horse
SBHS Seminar: Dr. Brittany Charlton is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Population Medicine and at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology: “Reproductive health disparities among sexual and gender minority women.”