While much of the tech world has come through Covid-19 relatively unscathed, some tech-focused industries have definitely felt the effects of the pandemic. As an AI and NLP software vendor with clients in myriad industries […]
When Is “Good” Good Enough for AI?
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Popular media and hype cycles are leading us to expect radical changes and perfect results from artificial intelligence. But you don’t read perfectly, so why should your AI? In this blog, veteran CIO Carl Lambrecht explains when “good” is good enough for AI.
Bias in AI and Machine Learning: Sources and Solutions
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Bias in AI causes machine learning-based systems to discriminate against particular groups. We investigated why AI bias occurs, and how to fight back.
Workin’ On the Pharma
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In the 21st century medicine is as much about text data analytics as it is about chemistry. If you can’t catch the wave your product might sink, or worse.
Understanding Polarity in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
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One of the most important and most-used functions in text analytics and NLP is sentiment analysis — the process of determining whether a word, phrase, or document is positive, negative, or neutral. The first step […]
Dude, Where’s My Neural Net? An Informal and Slightly Personal History
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It pretty much started here: McCulloch and Pitts wrote a paper [1] describing an idealized neuron as a threshold logic device and showed that an arrangement of such devices could express any propositional logic formula. […]
5 Industries Taking Advantage of Text Analytics
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Text analytics, also called text mining, has countless applications. Businesses are taking advantage of text analytics to update their service offerings, improve compliance, get ahead of PR disasters, and more. Here are 5 examples of […]
AI in Healthcare: Data Privacy and Ethics Concerns
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Artificial intelligence has rendered HIPAA obsolete. As AI in healthcare becomes commonplace, data privacy, security and ethical issues are growing. We explored the uses of AI in healthcare, the ethical issues involved, and why experts are raising flags about healthcare data storage and data security practices.
6 Predictions for AI, ML and NLP for 2021
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Every year, we like to consider what happened in the last year in AI, ML and NLP, and prognosticate on what might happen in the next 12 months. And while 2020 was a doozy of […]
The 7 Basic Functions of Text Analytics & Text Mining
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From Tokenization to PoS Tagging and beyond, this high-level overview explains the basic functions of text analytics and natural language processing.
How NLP-based VoC programs can help hospitality brands meet customer expectations during COVID-19
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(originally posted on Customer Think) COVID-19 has had an extensive impact on the hospitality industry. Shelter-in-place restrictions, along with event cancellations, reductions in business travel, and widespread job losses have altered how and why people […]
Text Analytics & NLP in Healthcare: Applications & Use Cases
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Healthcare databases are growing exponentially. Today, healthcare providers, drug makers and others are turning this data into value by using text analytics and natural language processing to mine unstructured healthcare data and then doing something with the results. Here are some examples.