Chris Moody introduces lda2vec

Chris speaks at ! Q&A with Chris and Alexy: Standard natural language processing (NLP) is a messy and difficult affair. It requires teaching a computer about English-specific word ambiguities as well as the hierarchical, sparse nature of words in sentences. At Stitch Fix, word vectors help computers learn from the raw text in customer notes. Our systems need to identify a medical professional when she writes that she ’used to wear scrubs to work’, and distill ’