讲座主题：Applying NLP in Business

报告人：余旸博士，罗切斯特理工大学桑德斯商学院

时间：2018年12月14日（周五）上午 10：00 ～ 11：30

地点：经济学院1教4036多媒体会议室

概况：行业数据经过近年的快速积累，已成为大规模数据挖掘基础。然而，绝大多数数据以非结构化，或者半结构化状态呈现，如图片，声音，视频以及文本等。从采集，存储，分析和说明角度而言，目前人们所使用的系统对于非/半结构数据仍不够友好。因此，从大规模非结构化或半结构化数据中挖掘有效决策支撑信息是一个极具挑战也极富前景的领域。本次报告聚焦于文本数据，对自然语言处理技术做一相对全面的先容，并分享泛非结构化或半结构化数据分析技术和相关人工智能领域实践案例。

报告人概况：

Dr. Yang Yu is an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems in the Saunders College of Business of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). He teaches at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Yu is winner of the Best Interdisciplinary Research Award of National Decision Sciences Institute and the Zutes research fellowship of Saunders College of Business.Dr. Yu’s research focuses on Information Extraction, Predictive Analysis and Unstructured Data Mining. As a data scientist, Dr. Yu is applying cutting edge big data techniques and AI to problem solving in different disciplines, for example, Healthcare, E-Commerce, Marketing, Hospitality, Sports, and Manufacturing, etc. He has published extensively in prestigious journals such as Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Production Research, Communication of the ACM, Journal of Medical Systems, etc.Dr. Yu received his Ph.D. degree from the Area of Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences (ISQS), Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. He also holds a Management Science and Engineering Ph.D. from the School of Economics and Management at Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics.