Information Extraction
Machine Learning, Text Analytics Aid in Food Safety at FDA
A new automated data analytics program is crucial for the early detection of signals and predications for regulated chemicals that may pose highly hazardous health risks at the Food and Drug Administration. The agency's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition first initiated the project, called the Emerging Chemical Hazard Intelligence Platform. It allows the center to anticipate potential chemicals associated with adverse health events before they get out of control, explained its Office of Food Additive Safety's Informatics and Information Systems Lead and Senior Policy Advisor Ernest Kwegyir-Afful. "Every time we have one these big [food safety] incidents, we have to drop everything so we can actually deal with it," said Kwegyir-Afful at SAS' Unleash Analytics: Making AI & Analytics Real event Aug. 20. This includes U.S. food supply chemical incidents, such as detecting products that increase the production of melanin in babies to measuring arsenic toxicity, he said.
Investors Seek an Edge By Using Technology That Reads Between the Lines
Ever since British economist John Maynard Keynes first declared that investors are prey to people's urge to act, however irrationally, the financial world has tried to quantify the impact of public sentiment on stock prices. Solving the puzzle would give investors in the know a huge advantage over the competition. Over the past decade, one vibrant corner of that still ongoing research has been data analysis. The goal has been to tease out clues about sentiment that are hidden in news articles, regulatory filings, transcripts, and press releases. With the rise of artificial intelligence, the sophistication of sentiment-measuring technology is increasing.
A Survey on Temporal Reasoning for Temporal Information Extraction from Text
Leeuwenberg, Artuur, Moens, Marie-Francine
Time is deeply woven into how people perceive, and communicate about the world. Almost unconsciously, we provide our language utterances with temporal cues, like verb tenses, and we can hardly produce sentences without such cues. Extracting temporal cues from text, and constructing a global temporal view about the order of described events is a major challenge of automatic natural language understanding. Temporal reasoning, the process of combining different temporal cues into a coherent temporal view, plays a central role in temporal information extraction. This article presents a comprehensive survey of the research from the past decades on temporal reasoning for automatic temporal information extraction from text, providing a case study on how combining symbolic reasoning with machine learning-based information extraction systems can improve performance. It gives a clear overview of the used methodologies for temporal reasoning, and explains how temporal reasoning can be, and has been successfully integrated into temporal information extraction systems. Based on the distillation of existing work, this survey also suggests currently unexplored research areas. We argue that the level of temporal reasoning that current systems use is still incomplete for the full task of temporal information extraction, and that a deeper understanding of how the various types of temporal information can be integrated into temporal reasoning is required to drive future research in this area.
Weakly Supervised Attention Networks for Fine-Grained Opinion Mining and Public Health
Karamanolakis, Giannis, Hsu, Daniel, Gravano, Luis
In many review classification applications, a fine-grained analysis of the reviews is desirable, because different segments (e.g., sentences) of a review may focus on different aspects of the entity in question. However, training supervised models for segment-level classification requires segment labels, which may be more difficult or expensive to obtain than review labels. In this paper, we employ Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) and use only weak supervision in the form of a single label per review. First, we show that when inappropriate MIL aggregation functions are used, then MIL-based networks are outperformed by simpler baselines. Second, we propose a new aggregation function based on the sigmoid attention mechanism and show that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art models for segment-level sentiment classification (by up to 9.8% in F1). Finally, we highlight the importance of fine-grained predictions in an important public-health application: finding actionable reports of foodborne illness. We show that our model achieves 48.6% higher recall compared to previous models, thus increasing the chance of identifying previously unknown foodborne outbreaks.
Sentiment Analysis at Socialbakers
One of the problems our Innovations team is working on at Socialbakers is sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis is an automated process of recognition of how an audience feels towards any given subject from written or spoken language. It is one of the most common classification tools exploiting artificial intelligence. Sentiment analysis algorithm analyzes given text and predicts whether the underlying sentiment is positive, neutral or negative. Socialbakers is a global AI-powered social media marketing company and there are many use cases for sentiment analysis in our marketing software-as-a-service platform, called the Socialbakers Suite.
Knowledge-Enriched Transformer for Emotion Detection in Textual Conversations
Zhong, Peixiang, Wang, Di, Miao, Chunyan
Messages in human conversations inherently convey emotions. The task of detecting emotions in textual conversations leads to a wide range of applications such as opinion mining in social networks. However, enabling machines to analyze emotions in conversations is challenging, partly because humans often rely on the context and commonsense knowledge to express emotions. In this paper, we address these challenges by proposing a Knowledge-Enriched Transformer (KET), where contextual utterances are interpreted using hierarchical self-attention and external commonsense knowledge is dynamically leveraged using a context-aware affective graph attention mechanism. Experiments on multiple textual conversation datasets demonstrate that both context and commonsense knowledge are consistently beneficial to the emotion detection performance. In addition, the experimental results show that our KET model outperforms the state-of-the-art models on most of the tested datasets in F1 score.
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Sentiment Analysis and Employee Engagement: How Companies can Leverage AI?
Artificial Intelligence is one of the most innovative technological breakthroughs of the modern times. From daily lives to corporate cultures, everything is being impacted by the novel technology. Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategically improves business processes by giving managers the power to analyze a vast amount of valuable data derived from customers as well as employees. When it comes to human resources, AI is particularly solving one of the greatest issues managers have been facing for many years- to improve employee engagement and retention rates. AI has the potential to give managers the power to make a better workplace, where employees don't feel distracted or dissatisfied with their job roles.
Messaging is the Future โ and So is Facebook Data Driven Investor
When the topic is WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger integration โ whether it's your friend or foe โ the person to ask is the master of all three. CEO of the Facebook Messenger marketing platform MobileMonkey, Larry Kim founded the advertising management and software and services company WordStream and is a columnist for Inc. magazine. He talked with marketing expert Madalyn Sklar about messaging and its rewards. "Nobody on Instagram ever wanted to message someone on WhatsApp," Kim said. "#InstaWhatEnger is totally for the benefits of businesses seeking to market to that enormous user community -- and for the benefit of Facebook profits."