From Hugging Face Transformers to NLP-Powered Applications

Transformers: the new trend in Artificial Intelligence and NLP Recent progress in NLP (Natural Language Processing) technologies highlights its strong potential for business transformation. While the domain used to be dominated by big players such as Google or Microsoft, smaller organizations are now going mainstream with the collaborative, open source approaches such as Explosion.ai (Spacy) … Continue reading From Hugging Face Transformers to NLP-Powered Applications

Let Kairntech support you in your vocabulary maintenance efforts

We have recently shown you how Kairntech can be used to automate parts of the efforts in vocabulary maintenance: Finding new candidate terms for the update and extension of your vocabularies. We have turned that into a video (5min) that explains the process and shows you how to do this using the software. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Cqzl67Fms

Finding new needles in content haystacks: Vocabulary maintenance with AI!

Introduction Structured vocabularies (thesauri, taxonomies...) play an important role in many applications where complex, large and volatile information needs to be organized and made accessible. A fine example is the famous MeSH thesaurus that facilitates search and access on Medical topics. Enriching scientific content with MeSH terms allows to guarantee that content on a specific … Continue reading Finding new needles in content haystacks: Vocabulary maintenance with AI!

Random checks are dead, long live exhaustivity

AI no-code NLP platforms change the paradigm In many professions controls are carried out on a random basis. It is a generally accepted practice that an auditor reviewing agreements or an analyst screening litterature proceeds with random checks simply because it is humanly impossible and much too costly to process each individual document. At the … Continue reading Random checks are dead, long live exhaustivity

Jumpstart your Machine Learning efforts by importing structured knowledge

Introduction Machine Learning approaches in NLP have been shown to be able to solve a wide range of tasks after being trained from scratch on an appropriate training corpus. While this is impressive, it often does not correspond to the demand in many real-world scenarios. Often relevant prior knowledge exists – in the case of … Continue reading Jumpstart your Machine Learning efforts by importing structured knowledge

Make the long road to augmented applications shorter by “do-it-yourself NLP”

Introduction Natural language processing (NLP) techniques have made tremendous progress during the last couple of years, thanks notably to algorithms such as Neural Networks which have surpassed traditional approaches using rule-based systems. Examples include Machine Translation (DeepL, Google Translate…) or Speech To Text (Siri…). Information extraction, Text classification, Automatic summarization, Q&A Subcategories of NLP like … Continue reading Make the long road to augmented applications shorter by “do-it-yourself NLP”

Extracting Numbers from Text

Introduction Named Entity Recognition relates to the extraction of sequences of words from within a document. The technique is mostly used to extract names of people, organisations or places, which are therefore the most typical named entities. However, the term named entity recognition does not capture very well the importance of a fragment of text, … Continue reading Extracting Numbers from Text

Bootstrap World Knowledge to extend Business Vocabulary and enhance Knowledge Graphs

Introduction Information extraction tends to target two situations:  Extract entities from an existing vocabulary, or Create an extraction model from scratch when there is no existing vocabulary. However, sometimes the situation is a mixture of the two extremes: an incomplete business vocabulary exists but needs to be completed with relevant additional entities of the same type. … Continue reading Bootstrap World Knowledge to extend Business Vocabulary and enhance Knowledge Graphs

Make the Voice of the Customer a Top Priority!

Direct customer feedback In a highly competitive environment, knowing customer complaints and expectations has become a major challenge for all companies. Direct customer feedback has become an increasingly important contributor since the emergence of the Internet. Whether it be results from a speech recording converted into text, a comment from a marketing survey, an incoming … Continue reading Make the Voice of the Customer a Top Priority!

Contract Analysis to Assist the Auditor

Introduction We will focus here on the investigation and verification part, which is undoubtedly one of the most important but also one of the most time-consuming for the auditors. However, it is essential to guarantee the sincerity of a company's accounts. This part already has powerful analysis tools for all structured data (mainly numerical numbers). … Continue reading Contract Analysis to Assist the Auditor