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Knowledge Graph – The Emerging AI Paradigm

Knowledge Graph – The Emerging AI Paradigm When searching for a person or place in Google, have you noticed that along with the web links, Google gives additional information in a box on the right-hand side of the result page? (Figure 1) Google brings this very precise additional information about your search because of a […]

January 16, 2019

The V’s of Big data

Traditionally, Big Data has been geared towards three characteristics, famously expressed as the 3 V’s i.e Volume, Velocity, and Variety to support Structured, Semi-Structured and Unstructured Data. As businesses started adopting more of Big Data, new V’s aimed towards maintaining data emerged: Vulnerability, Volatility, Veracity, and Validity. Accurate management of these new V’s can ensure […]

January 9, 2019

Linguistic Feature Engineering for Machine learning

Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) fall under the broad umbrella of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A big challenge in NLP is processing and transforming noisy unstructured textual data into some structured formats that can be understood by an ML algorithm. Feature engineering in ML is the process of generating or […]

January 2, 2019

An Insight to Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) in AI today

Language is an essential manifestation of human cognition, a complex evolutionary construct in communication. The challenges in making a computer “understand and respond” to such uniquely human constructs are innumerable. Also, given the extreme diversity in languages, the specific phonetical, grammatical and cultural features, “portability” of techniques used for English to another language is limited. Moreover, […]

December 26, 2018

A quick guide to Web crawling

Adel wants to buy a used car. He has a budget in mind, the car should be 3 years old, should have done less than 40,000 km and should also potentially last for the next 5 years. He also needs some necessary features like air-conditioning, leather seats, etc. A web search, reveals a number of […]

December 19, 2018

How does Opinion Mining work?

The presence of social media today has made it possible for people to stay connected all the time. Be it something as simple as a status about the happenings of the day, a film review, or debates about various socio-political scenarios; the masses are increasingly expressing their opinions on multiple platforms, much like the conversations […]

December 12, 2018

Computer Vision: The science and technology of machines that see

The pace at which technology is evolving today has left all other industries behind. So much so, that in order to succeed, it doesn’t matter what sector you belong to. Every company is competing to become a tech company today. Disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, IoT, etc. are leading the digital transformation space. […]

December 5, 2018

The Future of AI in the Automotive Industry

It seems like within a span of just a few years, the rapid evolution of AI allows technology, once only seen in science fiction movies to be soon witnessed on our roads. From self-driving cars, to a car that assesses its damage for maintenance purposes, the automobile industry is investing heavily in the power of […]

November 28, 2018

Machine Learning, AI and Streamlined Health Services

Technology has a single purpose; to enhance the human experience. The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare is on the rise and is solving a variety of problems for patients, hospitals and the healthcare industry in its entirety. AI in healthcare is deemed so necessary that all the major tech companies are set to […]

November 22, 2018

Blackboards and Androids: Is AI the Future of Education?

It is a universally known fact that technology is developing at a breathtaking pace. Education has to adapt to technology to enhance the overall learning experience for students while continuing to tackle the regular workload of teachers. AI has been a topic of research and investment since the 1980s, and only in recent years have […]

November 14, 2018