@chrpr

Former librarian turned Data Scientist. SemWeb, Analytics, NLP, Machine Learning, Viz. Blues, bluegrass and classic rock. Opinions my own.

Joined July 2009
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We will be at @ekawconference this week! @chrpr will be presenting his work on Question Answering for the Rapid Development of New Knowledge Extraction Pipelines. Collab with @ElsevierLabs through @ic4ai link.springer.com/chapter/10…

Question Answering with Additive Restrictive Training (QuAART): Q

Numerous studies have explored the use of language models and question answering techniques for knowledge extraction. In most cases, these models are trained on data specific to the new task at hand....

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Elsevier Labs is happy to announce Notebook Discovery, an open source tool from Darin McBeath (@ddmcbeath) to assist with searching notebooks created on the @databricks platform. github.com/elsevierlabs-os/N…

GitHub - elsevierlabs-os/NotebookDiscovery: Notebook Discovery Tool for Databricks notebooks

Notebook Discovery Tool for Databricks notebooks. Contribute to elsevierlabs-os/NotebookDiscovery development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Just an end of year reminder about MeasEval, our SemEval-2021 competition on measurements. Head to the CodaLab site for more info. Evaluation period is January 10-31. competitions.codalab.org/com…
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Published the training data for SemEval Task 8: MeasEval last week. Excited to release this data & hope it's a useful resource for scientific info extraction. Big thanks to @ElsevierLabs & @INDE_LAB_AMS colleagues for their help and support with this work! github.com/harperco/measeval

GitHub - harperco/MeasEval: SemEval-2021 Task 8: MeasEval data and other bits

SemEval-2021 Task 8: MeasEval data and other bits. Contribute to harperco/MeasEval development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com
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Check out SemEval Task 8 on extracting measurements and contexts from scientific text. competitions.codalab.org/com… . Co-organizers @ElsevierLabs @INDE_LAB_AMS
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Happy to see Elsevier create a free, curated collection of articles on racism, healthcare bias, criminal justice reform, and more!
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@ElsevierConnect23 Jul 2020
We invite you to check out our new Racial & #SocialEquality hub, with free access to curated research on systemic racism, healthcare bias, racial violence, law enforcement reform and social justice movements: bit.ly/39tKqWU
Super excited to be starting PhD studies with @pgroth in the UvA's @INDE_LAB_AMS, while continuing in my role as Sr. Tech Researcher at @ElsevierLabs.
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For my map nerd friends out there, this piece from the NYT comparing aerial photography over the decade is excellent: A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen From Above nytimes.com/interactive/2019…

A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen From Above (Published 2019)

A satellite’s view of what’s been built, destroyed and remade across the United States

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Star Wars sugar cookies with @altonbrown's recipe. An annual holiday favorite.
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Check out this super cool work released by Elsevier colleague Chris Kilding!
Jenkins@jenkinsci11 Dec 2019
Introducing the AWS Secrets Manager Credentials Provider for Jenkins by Chris Kilding jenkins.io/blog/2019/12/10/i…

Introducing the AWS Secrets Manager Credentials Provider for Jenkins

Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software

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In case I know anyone at PyDataLA, my colleague is giving a cool talk on custom NER tooling:
Sujit Pal 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇺🇦 🇮🇱@palsujit5 Dec 2019
Presenting how to build custom NERs efficiently using NERDS (github.com/sujitpal/nerds) at #PyDataLA today, hope to see you there!

GitHub - sujitpal/nerds

Contribute to sujitpal/nerds development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Elsevier Labs has released a standalone version of our NLP Annotation Query tool as open source: github.com/elsevierlabs-os/A… …. Thanks @ddmcbeath! #NLProc

GitHub - elsevierlabs-os/AnnotationQueryLocal

Contribute to elsevierlabs-os/AnnotationQueryLocal development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Study of genetics papers found that "in the 1970s, women accounted for 59 percent of acknowledged programmers, but just 7 percent of actual authors." theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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Oh, cool. Can't remember my source for this, but fivethirtyeight just released a ton of the datasets behind some of their journalism. data.fivethirtyeight.com/

Our Data

We’re sharing the data and code behind some of our articles and graphics.

data.fivethirtyeight.com
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Elsevier Labs is hiring. We have an opening for Principal Research Scientist 4re.referrals.selectminds.co… #MachineLearning #NLP #RDF #linkeddata #citizenscience #futureofhealthcare and many other possible topics of interest!
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Corey Harper retweeted
Dan Brickley@danbri1 Aug 2018
How URLs worked before URLs. Thanks @timberners_lee - * New paper available by Anonymous FTP server. * connect to ftp.bris.ac.uk * use 'anonymous' as username * use email address as password * cd /pub/papers/1991/ * set transfer to binary * get xyz-paper.tar.Z
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Check out research by @hdeus, @chrpr, @rdanielmeta & @ddmcbeath using data mining, NLP and neural networks to analyze methods and help uncover scientific behavior changes following important discoveries. elsevier.com/connect/cold-mi… "Cold mice are still affecting cancer research
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Over a month after the fact, but my #FOSS4GNA slides are now online. github.com/chrpr/talks/blob/…
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via @palsujit "Singular Value Decomposition for Recommendations with Tensorflow" sujitpal.blogspot.com/2018/0… #matrix factorization #python #recommender #tensorflow
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Chloropleth map shows up in a portrait of Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation dabrownstein.com/category/ch… #FOSS4GNA
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