Artificial Intelligence

BERT for Sentiment Analysis on Sustainability Reporting

What is the work you are doing today?

I'm a data scientist with KPMG the Netherlands, which means that I'm also a consultant, so I work on projects for clients, which can be external clients like other companies, but they can also be internal. For example, for the case of this talk, we worked together with an internal department. We usually make very customized analysis for people within the company. I work in the data analytics department and then within that department there's the advanced analytics team to which I belong. If clients have a question for which there is not a premade solution, they usually come to us and we will try to make something custom for them.

What are the goals for your talk?

I'm hoping that I can provide a good use case for language models or sophisticated deep learning models that are out there, then how you can use them. What are steps you need to think about? Then I think it can be useful for people to realize that if you do this for someone else, there are different in-between steps you have to take. You have to really get the message clear. People think that you take data, you put it in a machine, you get an answer, but there's a whole bunch of stuff that happens in between. To show what those steps can be very useful.