Data Science is Helping Zalando Learn Languages - Dataconomy

As a research scientist at the German online retail giant Zalando, Dr. Alan Akbik is an expert in Natural Language Processing and Data Extraction. In his work for the company, which at any given moment is handling massive numbers of online transactions in multiple languages, Akbik helps unveil unique insights into the very structure of human language by observing and analyzing huge sets of multilingual text data. Here's what he had to say about the possibilities for both business and the study of language that NLP is bringing online. What first inspired you to pursue a career as a data scientist? In a sense, all of humankind's knowledge is stored in written language in books, the Web, and elsewhere.