659: Open-Source Tools for Natural Language Processing

NLP practitioners: this episode is for you. From the awareness of linguistic elements and annotation to getting the necessary people in the room, Vincent Warmerdam presents to Jon Krohn a recipe for a successful project and the open-source NLP tools to get there. This episode is brought to you by epic LinkedIn Learning instructor Keith McCormick (https://linkedin.com/learning/instructors/keith-mccormick). Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit JonKrohn.com/podcast for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: • How Vincent came to work with De Speld [08:57] • Vincent’s role at Explosion [18:59] • How users can apply spaCy [21:46] • Prodigy: Annotate training data more efficiently with scripts [26:28] • How to manage “skill anxiety” with Calmcode [32:32] • How Vincent fixed bad labels [42:47] • The value of understanding linguistics for NLP [54:42] • How to constrain artificial stupidity [1:02:38] Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/659