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Bloomberg NLP Researcher photographed at Bloomberg Global Headquarters in New York on February 6, 2017 . Photographer: Lori Hoffman/Bloomberg
Data Science

A Conversation about Natural Language Processing with Bloomberg Researcher Amanda Stent

As a researcher in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg, Amanda Stent uses her doctorate in computer science and expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning to engineer products that parse, identify and respond to human language. Just ahead of WSDM 2017 (February 6-10, 2017) in Cambridge, England, a top international conference [...]
This word cloud shows the classes used by the Learning-to-Rank plug-in; the more frequently a class is mentioned in the code, the more prominent its visualization.

How Bloomberg Integrated Learning-to-Rank into Apache Solr

The latest milestone in open source development at Bloomberg is the incorporation of the Learning-to-Rank (LTR) plug-in into Apache Solr 6.4.0, which shipped this week. The release of the plug-in marks the culmination of a year’s worth of close collaboration between two groups of Bloomberg software engineers in New York and London and the open [...]
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Distinguished Speaker Series: Kyle Kingsbury

Computer safety researcher Kyle Kingsbury (or Aphyr) is the author of the Riemann monitoring system, an introduction to programming in Clojure, and the Jepsen series on distributed systems correctness. On Monday, December 12th, he visited Bloomberg’s Engineering team in London as a Distinguished Speaker and delivered a presentation on how to measure the safety invariants [...]
Top 5 Open Source
Open Source

Bloomberg’s 2016 Open Source Contributions: Top 5 Projects

When you look at an open source project’s commit history, you can see engineers from all over the world, both volunteers and employees of many organizations, coming together to create a shared resource. If you’ve been following the projects on this list in recent years, you’ve seen the hard work Bloomberg has put into them [...]
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