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Alex Ratner

Co-Founder & CEO
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Snorkel AI
Faculty, University of Washington

Alex Ratner is the co-founder and CEO at Snorkel AI, and an affiliate assistant professor of computer science at the University of Washington. Prior to Snorkel AI and UW, he completed his Ph.D. in computer science advised by Christopher Ré at Stanford, where he started and led the Snorkel open source project. His research focused on data-centric AI, applying data management and statistical learning techniques to AI data development and curation.

The latest from Alex

Swellshark: A Generative Model for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Without Labeled Data
Introducing SwellShark, a framework for building biomedical named entity recognition (NER) systems quickly.
Research Paper
Swellshark: A Generative Model for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Without Labeled Data

Introducing SwellShark, a framework for building biomedical named entity recognition (NER) systems quickly.

Nov 13, 2017 •

J. Fries, et al, 2017

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Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation With Weak Supervision
This paper presents a flexible interface layer to write labeling functions based on experience.
Research Paper
Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation With Weak Supervision

This paper presents a flexible interface layer to write labeling functions based on experience.

Oct 04, 2017 •

Alexander Ratner, Stephen H Bach, Henry Ehrenberg, Jason Fries, Sen Wu, Christopher Ré

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Data Programming: Creating Large Training Sets, Quickly
A paradigm for labeling training datasets programmatically rather than by hand.
Research Paper
Data Programming: Creating Large Training Sets, Quickly

A paradigm for labeling training datasets programmatically rather than by hand.

Dec 20, 2016 •

A. Ratner, et al. 2016

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Data Programming With DDLite: Putting Humans in a Different Part of the Loop
Introducing DDLite, an interactive development framework for data programming.
Research Paper
Data Programming With DDLite: Putting Humans in a Different Part of the Loop

Introducing DDLite, an interactive development framework for data programming.

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