February 4, 2014
Dr. Edward Jones
Executive Professor
Statistics Texas A&M University
Title: Text Analytics
Abstract
Text Analytics is a new, interdisciplinary area that blends methodology from statistics, computer science, and natural language processing. Computer scientists and linguistic experts are continuing to improve sophisticated algorithms for extracting and compiling complex summaries of text data. Statisticians have adaptive statistical methods for text analytics designed to solve sophisticated business and government problems. This field is rapidly evolving with the growth of available data and applications, and the demand for statisticians skilled in the analysis of unstructured data is high and expected to grow rapidly over the next decade.
This presentation discusses the problems associated with analyzing unstructured data, the role and contributions of statisticians in the analysis of unstructured data.