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Dec 2021
44m 49s

Lyndsee Manna - Natural Language Generat...

Neil Leiser
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Our guest today is Lyndsee Manna, Executive Vice President in Strategic Partnerships and Global Business at Arria NLG.  Arria is a world leader in Natural Language Generation (NLG), a sub-branch of Natural Language Processing which uses algorithms to transform structured data into text. 

In our conversation, we first talk about Lyndsee's studies and her transition from being a musician to becoming interested in Maths and Technology. We then focus on her experience at Diligent where she brought the company from a concept to an IPO. We finally dig into the world of Natural Language Generation with Arria NLG. We explore what NLG actually is, the benefits that this technology can offer as well as the different AI algorithms used to transform large and complex datasets into text, a format which can easily be understood by humans. Throughout the conversation, Lyndsee also shares various career advice based on her many years of experience in the world of AI, technology and strategy.

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