Starting Today, Columbia’s Professor Daniel Guetta Uses Evisort to Teach Text Mining in New Artificial Intelligence MBA Course
Summary
Guetta begins teaching the Evisort case study today in a new Business Analytics MBA class, the latest in Columbia’s growing data- and analytics-focused offerings for MBAs.He notes that, in addition to their significant usefulness for attorneys, contract analytics also have vast mainstream potential to assist a wide range of corporate professionals in finance and operations.Text mining drastically reduces the need for manual data searching, reporting and human reading of contracts except in the most complex cases.Evisort ( www.evisort.com ) is a startup founded in 2016 by Harvard Law and MIT researchers to develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to help companies mine contracts for data.Evisort allows corporate in-house attorneys, supply chain, and other professionals to leverage AI to seek patterns in contract data automatically using content analysis algorithms.