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Guest Speaker

John Stockdale, Senior Associate D&A Modeler, KPMG Lighthouse

Moderated By: Jessica Rodriguez, Industry Engagement and Outreach Officer, The Data Science Institute


Details

Thursday, February 10, 2022 (11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET) – Virtual

This event was not recorded.


Talk Information

CLEAR: A Framework for High Precision Data Extraction and Structuring

When it comes to data solutions, we often encounter scenarios where the data is highly complex and overwhelming, yet the cost of errors is high. KPMG CLEAR is a framework that leverages a hybrid machine/human methodology to efficiently extract and structure information with ultra-high precision.

Bio: John Stockdale is a Senior Associate with KPMG Lighthouse. He has a B.A. in linguistics from UC Berkeley, and an MSc. in Speech and Language Processing from The University of Edinburgh. He joined KPMG Lighthouse in 2019, and has experience in natural language processing, machine learning (with particular focus on deep learning methods in NLP), and a variety of techniques for extracting information from unstructured text.