Matteus Tanha

Matteus Tanha is the Head of Machine Learning at Alpha Quants, a consulting firm with a focus on Natural Language Processing solutions. He earned his Ph.D. specializing in machine learning applied to quantum chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University. For the past 6 years, Matteus has been developing various natural language processing solutions for companies across the sectors of finance, academia, and media.

projects by Matteus Tanha

Question Answering with Deep Learning

4 weeks · 7-10 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE

In this liveProject, you’ll step into the role of a data scientist working for an investment firm. Your company wants to make sure their investments meet European Union guidelines for environmental sustainability. That’s where you come in.

The EU taxonomy for sustainable finance is big, complex, and confusing. Your bosses need a program that saves them from searching through hundreds of pages whenever they have a query. You’ve been tasked with building a machine learning model that can pose certain questions to the EU guidelines, and return reliable answers.

Your challenges will include extracting text data from the EU taxonomy document, and matching environment questions with the corresponding paragraph in the guidelines. You’ll then set up a pretrained transformer Question-Answering model, evaluate its performance, and combine it with your question-paragraph model for an end-to-end solution. When you’re done, you’ll have an interface into which you can type a sustainable finance question and receive the correct answer from the EU guidelines.