Ling Zhang Software Engineer @ Aiden.ai

Spelling is hard, really hard. It's an everyday user frustration to try to search for a friend's name or the name of a restaurant that they heard but end up writing it wrong. In this talk, we will cover a python implementation of a single fast algorithm that can recover from spelling errors, typing errors, and even transliteration mistakes! We will also integrate this with a language model to make it context aware. With this technique, you can build powerful fuzzy text searchers and spell checkers.

Ling Zhang is one of the first software engineers at Aiden.ai, a fast growing AI startup in London. His interests lie in NLP, Networking and Machine Learning. He is a graduate of New York University and has previous experience working at companies like Facebook and Palantir.