Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Sensory Science

The goal of our project, Seeing Flavors, is to take open-ended food descriptions and extract a descriptive sensory language through the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to published, free-text descriptions. A set of whiskey descriptions is used as a case study. This project is a collaborative effort between the Department of Food Science and Technology and University Libraries at Virginia Tech…..

Authors

Chreston Miller and Michael Stamper are the University Librarians at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. They performed the following study in association with Jacob Lahne (Assistant Professor) and Leah Hamilton (PhD student) from the Department of Food Science and Technology of the university.

   Chreston Miller        Michael Stamper         Jacob Lahne            Leah Hamilton