[Baypiggies] Baypiggies Meeting Tonight @LinkedIn - Computing Document Similarity using NLTK

[John Wegis]

Sorry for the last minute location change. We were moved to Building 3 -
Unite Conference room. Just follow the BayPiggies signs at LinkedIn.

*LinkedIn Corporation*
*2061 Stierlin Ct (aka Bldg 3)*
*Room - **Unite*
*Mountain View, CA 94043*




On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:34 PM, John Wegis <jwegis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Our presentation tonight will be: "Computing Document Similarity using
> NLTK" by Harshvardhan (Hersh) Kelkar.
>
> *Location:*
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> *LinkedIn Corporation2061 Stierlin Ct (aka Bldg 6)Room - Neon
> CarrotMountain View, CA 94043*
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> *Abstract:*
> *We will explore techniques to determine the amount of similarity between
> documents. Specifically we will look at the intuition behind tf-idf and
> cosine similarity. With that as a foundation we will see how to compute
> these metrics with the natural language tool kit.*
>
>  *Speaker:*
> *Harshvardhan Kelkar is a Software Engineer at Martini Media Inc. where he
> builds software for the Display Advertising Industry. Prior to that he
> worked at BMC Software on building the next generation Remedy Platform. He
> also likes the *
> * zen of python. (import this)*
>
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>
> * Meeting ScheduleThe meeting begins @ 7:30PM. The main presentation will
> start @ 7:40 PM, after the usual announcements. If you wish to post jobs
> here, please go to: Job Listings
> <http://baypiggies.net/job-listings/job-listings> *
>
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