NLP USING SPACY

Workshop on 30th October 2021, MS TEAMS

Guest: Mr Harinath Krishnamoorthy, Product Manager , BuddiMake ClariTrics India Pvt Ltd

AMC FOSS is a student community based in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai campus focused on contributing to Free and Open Source Software and guiding students to excel in various fields of Computer Science. Students here in the club contribute to open-source projects of various popular open-source organizations, participate in open-source student programs, attend workshops, conferences, hackathons and so on. Regular Guest lectures, workshops, conference are held by the club encourage others to learn and contribute to open-source.

Mr. Harinath Krishnamoorthy started the guest lecture by giving an introduction to NLP and went on to describe its various application such as text to speech, text summarization, natural language generation, and so on. He briefed about the various challenges faced by NLP citing some examples as to some words implying different meanings in different contexts. He then discussed the basic elements of NLP such as tokenization, text cleaning, etc. He introduced different packages available in python for NLP such as spacy. After which he showed students a live demonstration of how spacy works in python and implemented tokenization in google colab. He also showed how to work with NLP web tools like Rule-based matcher explorer, entity visualizer, Comparing regular expressions, etc and concluded the morning session.

Mr Harinath started the afternoon session with a hands on session on spacy library . He clearly illustrated the importance of regular expression in NLP with few examples. Also elaborated on the difference between spacy and regular expression, Tokenization, NER. Further, he went on to show students, a live implemention of Analysis of Tweets Regarding COVID 19 wave 2 hit in Tamil nadu so as to make students understand how NLP applies in real life. Another noticeable feat done to ease the students into this complex topic was the simplicity of Mr. Mr Harinath Krishnamurthy’s presentation. It had the necessary definitions, required examples and credible information, thus making it easy to understand and follow. Various complex topics were reiterated on the request of the students and all the queries were accepted with enthusiasm and answered with zeal.

The guest lecture concluded with a Vote of Thanks expressing immense gratitude for this experience and to all the people who made it happen. The recitation of the Shanti Mantra brought the session to an end.

HOW OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE POWERS TODAY'S WORLD

Guest Lecture on 30th October 2021, MS TEAMS

Guest: Mr. Richy Gerard, Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead, Xandr , New York

Mr Richy Gerard is currently working as Senior Software Engineer leading his Team in Real Time Platform Engineering at Xandr at New York, United States. His Areas of Interest include Distributed Systems, Real Time Data Processing, Operating Systems, Virtualization, File Systems & Storage. He is also passionate about Linux and Open Source.

Mr Richy Gerard started the guest lecture with a self introduction and how FOSS club played a crucial role in his career. He gave students an introduction about open source and discussed how open source has transformed the current industry. He further talked about how open source plays an prominent role in current Tech industry. He also emphasized on the importance of FOSS club. He then went on to describe the difference between free software and open sorce software. He briefed about open source standards, linux foundation networking and how business tranformation happened through open source. He introduced students about some of the open source available today such as linux, apache, MySQL, open source CRM, various open source project management softwares such as ZOHO, and open source blockchain softwares that run to record transactions between two parties such as Hyperledger, Ethereum. He also briefed about how open source is transforming lives citing examples such as android.

Mr. Gerard encouraged students to enroll themselves in FOSS club and motivated them to make the most out of all opportunities provided to them at the club. He told that by participating in conferences, contributing to open source projects , students can kickstart their interest in opensource.

Another noticeable feat done to ease the students into this topic was the simplicity of Mr. Richy Gerard’s presentation. It had the necessary definitions, required examples and credible information, thus making it easy to understand and follow. Although a very knowledgeable man in this field of computer science, he only explained topics well within the students’ grasp and understanding. Various complex topics were reiterated on the request of the students and all the queries were accepted with enthusiasm and answered with zeal.

PRINCIPLES OF DATA SCIENCE - THEMATICS

Guest Lecture on 8th November 2021, MS TEAMS

Guest: Mr Parthasarathy, Senior Technical Analyst Oracle America, Lehi,UT, US

AMC FOSS is a student community-based in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai campus focused on contributing to Free and Open-Source Software and guiding students to excel in various fields of Computer Science. As a part of the Guest lecture series conducted regularly by the AMC FOSS club, Mr. Parthasarathy Srinivasan was invited as a guest lecturer on the topic Principles of Data science – Thematic. This guest lecture was Lecture #2 in the series so far.

Mr. Parthasarathy is currently working as Senior Technical Analyst Oracle America, Lehi, UT, US. Mr. Parthasarathy is an extremely ambitious, self-motivated senior level Technical Project Manager / Java Developer Lead / Architect Lead / Senior Software Engineer encompassing over 22 years’ contribution within key technical project management roles. He has provided significant contribution and knowledge throughout project success responsible for architecture, software design and IT. He has Proven success spanning FORTUNE 500, FORTUNE 100 companies, such as Veritas, Cognizant, Autodesk Inc., and Reliance Communications, and Oracle Corporation.

Mr. Parthasarathy started with the explanation of data science which was the crux of the subject being discussed and then went on to explain the three basic pillars of data science – regression, clustering, and time series analysis. He explained elaborately how the gradient descent method is used in linear regression and discussed in detail the clustering algorithm using k means clustering. He then briefed about time series analysis and how it helps create predictive modeling for strategizing the solutions to real-world business problems. Mr. Parthasarathy catered to the needs and requirements of the students present by taking real-life examples that were not too complex and easily understood. For example, the regression algorithms such as linear regression using gradient descent were explained in detail by taking real-life examples such as income vs education. Further, he went on to show students, live implementation of linear regression algorithm in python so as to make students understand how regression works in real life.

Another noticeable feat done to ease the students into this topic was the simplicity of Mr. Parthasarthy’s presentation. It had the necessary definitions, required examples and credible information, thus making it easy to understand and follow. Although a very knowledgeable man in this field of computer science, he only explained topics well within the students’ grasp and understanding. Various complex topics were reiterated on the request of the students and all the queries were accepted with enthusiasm and answered with zeal.

Before wrapping up the guest lecture , question and answer session was conducted in which students as well as faculties asked their doubts ,queries. The guest lecture concluded with thanking everyone who attended the guest lecture and expressing immense gratitude for this experience and to all the people who made it happen.

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