Welcome to episode 193 of the AI in Action podcast, the show where we break down the hype and explore the impact that Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are making on our everyday lives.

Powered by Alldus International, our goal is to share with you the insights of technologists and data science enthusiasts to showcase the excellent work that is being done within AI in the United States and Europe.

Today’s guest is Núria Bertomeu Castelló, Director of Natural Language Processing at YUKKA Lab in Berlin. Founded in 2016, YUKKA Lab provides fact-based actionable insights to the financial markets. With YUKKA Labs Augmented Language Intelligence,  it generates a systematic and efficient overview of topics and trends observed in the financial news.

YUKKA’s self-developed algorithms are leading-edge, containing Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Their solutions enable users from fields of asset management, market research, financial advisory, risk management and sales to handle the rapidly increasing amount of various financial data in real-time.

In the episode, Núria will tell you about:

The work they are doing at YUKKA Lab

The knowledge we can obtain from text mining financial news

Challenges of working within text understanding

Recent trends that have taken NLP to the next level

Insights from text mining that they have introduced into their product

Benefits that these new features bring to clients

To find out more about Núria and the interesting work happening at YUKKA Lab, check out the website www.yukkalab.com or follow them on Twitter @yukkalab. You can also connect with Núria on Linkedin. 

What did you think of Núria’s podcast? Where do you see the future of AI and Natural Language Processing heading in the next few years? We would love to hear your thoughts on this episode, so please leave a comment below.

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