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Optimizing Information Acquisition and Decision Making Processes with Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning & Visual Analytics

Albert Weichselbraun, Philipp KuntschikNorman Süsstrunk, Fabian Odoni, Sandro Hörler, Adrian Brasoveanu

Agenda

Introduction● Challenges● Technology stack

Visual analytics

Industry use cases● Digital Asset Management (IMAGINE)● Company Valuation (DISCOVER)● Recruiting (Job Cockpit)

Conclusions

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Introduction

Technical challenges (Text & Data Mining)● Application of statistics, natural language processing and machine learning● Knowledge poor, but predictable, well described methods● Data quality, reliability

Economic & domain-specific challenges ● “Enabling sciences”

✔ support domain experts in creating more efficient processes and new innovative products

✔ visual analytics can aid decision makers in identifying potential applications of these methods

● Create value✔ optimize business processes ✔ new product and services

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Introduction

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Textpre-processing

Phraseextraction

DataAcquisition

Geo-Tagging

Named EntityLinking

ClassificationSentimentAnalysis

OpinionMining

Clustering

Deep WebMirroring

Named EntityRecognition

Dataenrichment

Privacy awareknowledge extraction

Localitysensitivehashing

Visualanalytics

Dashboard& user interface

Content retrievalcomponents

Content processing and analytics components

User interfacecomponents

Date enrichmentcomponents

Big Data & Web Intelligence

Visual Analytics

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University of Applied Sciences Chur | Swiss Institute for Information Research

Process optimization

Use Case 1Digital Asset Management

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Textual descriptionIn this image taken from video a camera drone crashes into the snow narrowly missing Austria's Marcel Hirscher during an alpine ski, men's World Cup slalom, in Madonna Di Campiglio, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015.

Context informationEvents, Persons, Organizations, Locations

Keywords, Sentimentcamera drone, crash, Marcel Hirscher, alpine ski, World Cup, slalom, Madonna Di Campiglio, italy

Classification (IPTC codes)alpine skiing, slalom, accident (general)

Cross-modal information extraction for improved image meta data

Product innovations

Use Case 2Company Valuation

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Knowledge discovery, extraction and fusion for improved decision making

Named entity recognition & linkingDeep Web knowledge

discovery & extraction

Study ID: NCT03164772Title: mRNA Vaccine in …Condition: Metastatic Lung CancerPhase: Phase 1; 2

Company: Lantern PharamAddress: 211 N Ervay St, Dallas, TX 75201, USAPhone: +1 515-231-2065CEO: Arunk K. Asaithambi, PH.D.CSO: Peter Narad, D.V.M., PH.D.

Product Innovations innovations

Use Case 3Recruiting

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Web analytics, data enrichment and predictive analysis for improved recruitment and career management processes

Privacy aware knowledge extraction

KnowledgeExtraction

MATCHIXdomain ontology

Anonymized job profiles + context Construction engineer

15 km from ZurichSpecialization: ...

Branche: EngineeringEducation: ETH ZurichCertificates: Project manager: 2aLead: 5a...

JobCockpit

API

Semantic searchPredictive analytics

Conclusions

● Natural language processing, machine learning and visual analytics are “enabling technologies”

● Application poses (i) technological and (ii) economic challenges which require close collaboration between data scientists and domain experts

● Requires a clear understanding of the available data as well as the potential and limitations of the methods applied to these data→ data sources that contain relevant data (would a human with unlimited time resources be able to extract the required information)→ identify suitable methods

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Platform Descriptionwww.weblyzard.com

Web Intelligencehttp://htwchur.ch/?id=web_intelligence

ContactAlbert.Weichselbraun@htwchur.ch

University of Applied Sciences Chur (HTW)Pulvermühlestrasse 57, 7000 ChurContact

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Thank you for your attention!

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