Ask HN: Seen any interesting NLP links?

Posted by haliax on Thursday December 17, 2009 @05:01PM
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Dear HN,

I've been doing some reading on natural language technologies -- and it seems like there's a huge amount of potential there! Have you seen any killer apps?

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Re:Ask HN: Seen any interesting NLP links? by randliu on Friday December 18, 2009 @05:48AM (#1002915)

There's several companies working on sentiment analysis. The NYT had a roundup: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emot...

Backtype is a YC company that probably does some NLP stuff on the backend. http://www.backtype.com/

Also, Powerset and Wolfram Alpha.

The most obvious killer app is sentiment analysis applied to product reviews. Overall I don't feel like NLP has game-changing applications yet since good data is structured data. The research is in place, though.

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