Top 10 Signs of the Textpocalypse

Steven CohenEVP & COOCO-FOUNDERBasis Technology

O P E ND A T AS C I E N C EC O N F E R E N C E_

BOSTON 2015

@opendatasci

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Anglocentriqueالتفكیر عن النص في اللغة اإلنجلیزیة思考所有文字应是英文

תוהים למה כולם לא כותבים ומדברים רק אנגלית

9

Doing SaaS when itshould be on premand vice versa

8

Not considering how your genre or domain may differ from that for which the model was built.

7

Subjective, anecdotalrather than objective,empirical evaluation

6

Thinkingentity extraction

is the same asentity resolution

5

Forgetting theimportance ofoverrides

4

Thinking all you needis ‘machine learning’

3

Expecting perfectaccuracy

2

Confusing sentimentfor intent

1

Not combining with other sources of signal (structured, multi-media)

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