Parsing Addresses With Machine Learning

Editor's note: Dave Currie joined Lob's Atlas team in June 2020 as a remote contractor. Working as the team's Machine Learning Engineer, he has helped to improve the accuracy of the Address Verification product by developing microservices that utilize machine learning. This article was written about one of these microservices. When I tell people that my work is focused on improving an address verification product, I sometimes receive confused looks. If you think about a friend's address, you might picture something like "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC 20500".