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Demonstrating the first Brand Disambiguator (a hacky, crappy classifier that does something useful)

Last week I had the pleasure of talking at both BrightonPython and DataScienceLondon to about 150 people in total (Robin East wrote-up the DataScience night). The updated code is in github. The goal is to disambiguate the word-sense of a token (e.g. “Apple”) in a tweet as being either the-brand-I-care-about (in this case – Apple […]

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11 years ago

Social Media Brand Disambiguator first steps

As noted a few days back I’m spending June working on a social-media focused brand disambiguator using Python, NLTK and scikit-learn. This project has grown out of frustrations using existing Named Entity Recognition tools (like OpenCalais and DBPediaSpotlight) to recognise brands in social media messages. These tools are generally trained to work on long-form clean […]

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11 years ago

June project: Disambiguating “brands” in Social Media

Having returned from Chile last year, settled in to consulting in London, got married and now on honeymoon I’m planning on a change for June. I’m taking the month off from clients to work on my own project, an open sourced brand disambiguator for social media. As an example this will detect that the following […]

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11 years ago

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