12 January
12.45pm, LT308 Huxley
| Title: | Natural language processing and financial markets |
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| Abstract: | Most often, news breaks in natural language or other semi-structured forms. This talk will present how such information can be employed to automate trading of financial markets. Using a modern software development environment, progressive methodologies and a culture of collaboration and support, we will show how challenging problems like this can be turned around quickly. |
| Speaker Details: | Tom Newcomb Dr Newcomb joined OxFORD Asset Management in 2007 and is involved in the analysis and implementation of some of OxFORD's event-based strategies. These strategies utilise non-market data using web scraping, text parsing and big data technologies. Dr Newcomb studied Mathematics and Computer Science at St Edmund Hall, Oxford where he subsequently did his DPhil in Computer Science in the field of automated verification. Before joining OxFORD, he worked for a company developing distributed software for managing server clusters, before returning to St Edmund Hall as a college lecturer researching computer security. |
