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Programmatic labeling moves a classic technique from interesting to high-impact So much of real-world AI development entails working with text data that’s messy — in fact, 80%+ of enterprise data is unstructured. And while state-of-the-art models get a lot of the glory, creating the training data that conveys what your model needs to learn is more often the biggest determiner of AI…

AI systems are well-suited to tasks involving recognizing and predicting data patterns. Supervised classification systems categorize unseen data into a finite set of discrete classes by learning from millions of hand-labeled labeled sample points. These classifiers are powerful business tools – they automate document sorting, customer sentiment analysis, sales performance, and other distinct business problems. However, they also require an…

What is data annotation? Data annotation refers to the process of categorizing and labeling data for training datasets. This process plays a critical role in preparing data for machine learning models, as high-quality training data enables more accurate predictions and insights. In order for a training dataset to be usable, it must be categorized appropriately and annotated for a specific…

Labeling functions are fundamental building blocks of programmatic labeling that encode diverse sources of weak labeling signals to produce high-quality labeled data at scale. Let’s start with the core motivation for labeling functions: over time, every major commercial organization and government agency builds various valuable, often bespoke knowledge resources. These resources include employee expertise, wikis and ontologies, business logic, and…

Research recap: Ontology-driven weak supervision for clinical entity classification in electronic health records (EHRs)  In this post, I have summarized the research published in this academic paper, Ontology-driven weak supervision for clinical entity classification in electronic health records by Jason Fries et al. This paper was published in Nature Communications in 2021.Problem statement Electronic health records (EHR) contain a rich…

Highlighting the best practices for building and deploying AI models for financial document processing applications AI has massive potential in the financial industry. Building AI models to automate information extraction, fraud detection, and compliance monitoring can provide efficient and faster responses and support repurposing domain experts’ labor to more meaningful tasks. Developing AI models is not just about having models…

The following post is based on a talk discussing the benefits of programmatic labeling for trustworthy AI, which was presented as part of the Trustworthy AI: A Practical Roadmap for Government event that took place this past April, with Snorkel AI Co-founder and Head of Technology, Braden Hancock. If you would like to watch Braden’s presentation, we have included it…

Learning about the challenges and opportunities behind deep neural networks  In this talk, Assistant Professor in Computer Science Sharon Li shares some exciting work about uncovering the unknowns of deep neural networks. She also shares some exciting challenges and opportunities in this domain. If you would like to watch Sharon’s presentation, we have included it below, or you can find…

If you were ever amazed at how Google accurately finds the answer to your question just by a few keywords, you’ve witnessed the power of named entity recognition (NER). By quickly and accurately identifying different entities in a sea of unstructured articles, like names of people, places, and organizations, the search engine can figure out each article’s main topics and…