Chris Swart

CIO, cofounder @ Comtura

Interested in NLP and distant supervision

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

Comtura has launched on Product Hunt check it out if you want to just dictate your notes into Salesforce, instead of fighting the Salesforce UX
https://t.co/B3ZH19KiAQ

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

@philoTechnica @paulg I think great programmers also need to write redundant code and make mistakes. Great programmers never stop learning. Learning goes hand in hand with mistakes and redundant code.

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

https://t.co/xzaDnfoh7Y

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

I am going to run a workshop at @crunchbp on how to scale your annotation processes using weak supervision. Link to workshop ⬇️ #machinelearning #nlp #annotation

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I shared my data annotation cookbook and tips and tricks with Alexey Georgev from DataTalks

The key takeaways:
1. Involve stakeholders in creating your data model asap
2. Rapid iteration is key
3. Active learning and distant supervision for efficiency

https://t.co/UCUPvHpl6L

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Had a great talk on https://t.co/w0E6SaHc7V about dataset creation https://t.co/s2rKb8p086

I go into my conceptual framework for dataset creation and talk about:
1. in-house vs crowdsourcing
2. weak supervision to supercharge your annotation
3. tool recommendations

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

I will be talking on https://t.co/w0E6SaHc7V tomorrow 16:00 UTC+1 about Dataset Creation and Curation.

Tune in to hear about:
1. my process for annotation covering in-house vs crowdsourcing
2. how I use inter-annotator agreement
3. weak supervision

https://t.co/igziMwLMV6

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

@Poonamligade Terrytops is a real dino he isn't just a logo :(

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

As weak supervision is becoming more and more popular there are some interesting open source tools out there for leveraging noisy data:
https://t.co/tMsTNDJ2dH
https://t.co/EjhbQ0gRKs

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Originally Snorkel was an open source project for programmatic data labelling https://t.co/aEY0uz084D
Today the team is focusing more and more on Snorkel flow, a commercial offering to reduce the cost of data labelling.

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I came across Snorkel a couple of years ago it demonstrated a couple cool ideas around programmable labels:
1. thinking about programmable labels as labelling functions
2. use spacy linguistic features in these functions.
Functions help me conceptualise distant supervision

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

Had the pleasure to attend the Future of Data-Centric AI from Snorkel today
The core ideas of #datacentricai:
Data curation is the bottleneck, compute and models are commodities
To solve this problem re-weight and combine programmable weak supervision signals

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

@ZetaVector @s_hofstaetter @Nils_Reimers @andrewyates @danieldazac @rodrigfnogueira @Thom_Wolf @m__dehghani Were any of the talks recorded in the end? Would be great to watch some of them!

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@mr_bjerre86 @spacy_io @stanfordnlp Fair point, spacy has been amazing since I have discovered it

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

@AMDNews When can we do deep learning on this card?

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

@ani_nenkova There was a chrome extension that allowed you to save the google meet autocaptions

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

@abhi1thakur Good job with the concise code blocks - would love it if more of my twitter feed was easy to read code

[Chris Swart @swartchris8]

@OxyKodit @spacy_io @gvanrossum Looking forward to your talk!