Gilles Jacobs' Blog

Presenting Economic Event Detection @ ACL18.

My economic event detection presentation at the Workshop on Economics and NLP.

Posted on July 20, 2018

I went to ACL18, one of the largest NLP conferences in the world last week. Blogging conference highlights is Sebastian Ruder’s thing, so I thought I would give a try too. The main difference with my post being the likelihood of getting read, which is much higher for Sebastian. I... [Read More]

Wanted Annotator at LT3, UGent.

Job opening for annotator student workers for the SENTiVENT project.

Posted on June 18, 2018

Job opening for annotator student workers for economic events in the SENTiVENT project in English news articles. The data annotation is part of the SENTiVENT project on economic event extraction and sentiment analysis. [Read More]

Tags: student worker studentenjob annotator English event LT3 UGent SENTiVENT job

SENTiVENT Information Extraction for Economic News.

Introduction to my SENTiVENT PhD research project.

Posted on June 17, 2018

In this post I outline my PhD research in non-technical terms. I explain the SENTiVENT project’s goals and challenges. [Read More]

Tags: SENTiVENT machine learning economic news text mining NLP event extraction sentiment analysis