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Masters Intelligent Systems results are in

Graduated with distinction!

Posted on July 23, 2021

I am very excited to share that today I have graduated as a Master of Intelligent Systems, with distinction, from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK [Read More]
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And done

Masters thesis submitted!

Posted on June 4, 2021

Several hundred hours with many late nights. So much joy from all the learnings and building. A few tears from fatigue and frustration. [Read More]
Tags: learning Covid-19 natural language processing machine learning BERT transformers data engineering

Chapter 7 Conclusion

COVID-LEAP thesis takeaways

Posted on June 3, 2021

A summary of the LEAP solution: [Read More]
Tags: Covid-19 learning machine learning BERT transformers information retrieval

Chapter 6 Experiment Design & Results

COVID-LEAP thesis takeaways

Posted on May 26, 2021

With COVID-LEAP, I developed and evaluated several IR strategies that included lexical (e.g., BM25), dense (e.g., msmarco-distilbert-base-v3), and re-ranking models (e.g., lexical first stage BM25 reranked by second stage dense... [Read More]
Tags: Covid-19 learning machine learning BERT transformers information retrieval

Chapter 5 Natural Language Processing

COVID-LEAP thesis takeaways

Posted on May 13, 2021

At its core, COVID-LEAP is a semantic information retrieval system. It is tasked with finding the most relevant academic paper snippets within a large open-source knowledge base of biomedical literature... [Read More]
Tags: Covid-19 Microsoft Azure cloud Python learning machine learning database data data engineering
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