NLP is a key component in many data science systems that must understand or reason about text. David Talby, Alex Thomas, Claudiu Branzan, and Veysel Kocaman use the open source Spark NLP library to explore advanced NLP in Python.

Spark NLP provides state-of-the-art accuracy, speed, and scalability for language understanding by delivering production-grade implementations of some of the most recent research in applied deep learning. It’s the most widely used NLP library in the enterprise today.

About the speaker

David Talby is a CTO at John Snow Labs, helping fast-growing companies apply big data and data science techniques to solve real-world problems in healthcare, life science, and related fields. David has extensive experience in building and operating web-scale data science and business platforms, as well as building world-class, Agile, distributed teams.

Previously, he was with Microsoft’s Bing Group, where he led business operations for Bing Shopping in the US and Europe and worked at Amazon both in Seattle and the UK, where he built and ran distributed teams that helped scale Amazon’s financial systems. David holds a Ph.D. in computer science and master’s degrees in both computer science and business administration.