Text By the Bay 2015: Vlad Giverts, Learning The Semantics of Millions of Entities

What do "Software Developer", "MTS", and "Code Monkey" have in common? No, it's not the start to a bad joke. It's actually a situation where many unique entities turn out to have a small number of distinct semantics. This talk will present new techniques for mapping millions of such entities into a common semantic space with just a few thousand labels. We'll discuss how these techniques have been applied to job titles, skills, majors, and degrees to build candidate recommendation systems.

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