Introduction Since its release in 2018, Novetta’s Machine Learning Center of Excellence has evaluated the performance of Universal Language Model Fine-Tuning (ULMFiT)1 against many customer use cases. We have found that automated labeling of unstructured text helps analysts be more efficient, freeing them up to focus on higher-value tasks. We have been so impressed with its accuracy that we have deployed ULMFiT against a dataset in a production system, with plans to expand it to dozens of other datasets. While ULMFiT’s performance has been impressive on all the datasets we’ve tested, we thought it could do more. Our first use…
State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT
Novetta’s Matt Teschke spoke at ODSC East – Boston in the session,”State of the Art Text Classification with ULMFiT” on May 2, 2019. The rise of the internet has led to a faster flow of information, where news posted to a relatively obscure blog can be shared on social media and reach national publications within hours. The volume of information is such that humans alone cannot filter out noise, identify important new viewpoints, and determine how messaging trends are changing over time. At Novetta, we are constantly evaluating advances in deep learning to help our customers…
Novetta has BIG PLANS for AWS re:Invent 2018
Novetta is excited to return to one of the world’s largest tech conferences, AWS re:Invent! This year there are even more ways to engage with us in Las Vegas. For the first time, Novetta will have leaders on stage in two speaking sessions, we are returning to our suite at the Venetian to give customized demos, and we are sponsoring two Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) events. As in all great partnerships, Novetta and AWS are better together. Novetta’s advanced analytics technology is enhanced by AWS services and we are proud to offer our support, and contribute our expertise and innovation,…
NLP Transfer Learning on SageMaker
Novetta Machine Learning Center of Excellence effort to develop a deep learning model that predicts customer-relevant metadata tags for unstructured text. BACKGROUND: ENRICHMENT OF UNSTRUCTURED TEXT DATA The rise of the internet has led to a faster flow of information, where news posted to a relatively obscure blog can be shared on social media and then reach national publications within hours. The volume is such that humans alone cannot filter out noise, identify important new information, and determine how messaging trends are changing over time. To address this challenge, Novetta Mission Analytics (NMA) helps customers analyze open source and…
