TAIG Competition Winners Describe Research
Tommy Jones and Yeseul Jeon were recently named winners of the 2021 Text Analysis Interest Group (TAIG) presentation competition for talks they gave at the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings.
Jones is a PhD candidate at George Mason University, a senior member of the technology staff at In-Q-Tel, and vice president of Data Community DC. Here, he summarizes his research:
Jeon is a PhD student at Yonsei University. She investigated effective estimation and visualization of topic interactions in the context of COVID-19 research. She describes her research below:
Jones and Jeon were invited to elaborate on their prize-winning research during an upcoming Data Science DC (DSDC) Meetup, sponsored by the TAIG and Washington Statistical Society.
TAIG serves as the bridge between the mainstream statistical community represented by the ASA and the growing field of text analysis, defined broadly (e.g., text mining, natural language processing, computational linguistics, web scraping, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, GAN text generation, automated translation, etc.).
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