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Open Source Charlotte March 1 Meetup | Using Machine Learning & NLP Advances to Enhance Search & Discovery
March 1, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
DETAILS
The March 1 meetup will feature the great Grant Ingersoll discussing a super interesting and relevant topic – Using Machine Learning & NLP Advances to Enhance Search & Discovery.
Doors open at 5:30 – 6:00 pm ET for networking with the Charlotte tech community and food and beverages. Live programming will begin at 6:30 sharp and wrap up by 8:00. We fully understand it’s a work night and everyone has work/family obligations, so we’ll stay on time.\
In addition to great presentation and a world-class speaker, the meetup will feature plenty of networking opportunities and free swag (t-shirts, hats, stickers,, etc.).
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COST
The meetup is FREE to attend, no strings attached. We don’t sell anything. We only host amazing open source technology events.
START TIME
Venue doors officially open at 6:00 pm (you can arrive earlier if you like), live programing begins at 6:30 pm ET sharp. We’ll begin the evening with a few community announcements, then we’ll quickly move to our speakers.
LOCATION AND ADDRESS
Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City
2nd floor – Lecture Hall
320 E. 9th Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
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*Note, public rail, including a public rail station, is located bedside the DuBois Center and easily accessible. More information can be found here. Multiple parking options are also available. Parking details can be found here.
SPEAKER DETAILS
Speaker: Grant Ingersoll
Speaker Bio:
Grant is CTO of Develomentor, focused primarily on the search, NLP and machine learning space. He is the former CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation and the co-founder, CTO & Board Member of Lucidworks; co-author of Taming Text; co-founder of Apache Mahout and a long-standing committer on the Apache Lucene and Solr open source projects. Grant’s experience includes managing a large team of engineers, researchers, ML engineers and data scientists at a top ten website as well as engineering a number of search, question answering, and natural language processing applications for a variety of domains and languages. He earned his B.S. from Amherst College in Math and Computer Science and his M.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University. University.
Grant on the internets:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gsingers
Website: https://develomentor.com/
TALK DETAILS
Talk Title: Machine Learning & NLP Advances to Enhance Search & Discovery
Talk Abstract:
With the recent advances in natural language processing and machine learning thanks to deep learning and large general purpose models, many search applications are confronted with how best to upgrade their systems, if at all. In this talk, we’ll look at practical ways to enhance search using neural and other machine learning techniques across ranking, content understanding and query understanding. We’ll also look at the tradeoffs of traditional approaches with a goal of helping you decide what’s best for your application.
QUESTIONS
Questions can be directed to the All Things Open team at info@allthingsopen.org