E193 Núria Bertomeu Castelló, Director of Natural Language Processing at YUKKA Lab

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 and

Benefits that these new features bring to clients