From a mass of text written in response to a survey question, natural language processing tools can depict common significant words, quantify relationships between words, classify mood, and help us ...

Natalie Gross is a freelance journalist and podcast producer based in the Washington, D.C., area. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Georgetown University. It’s been a decade since IBM’s ...

Organizations of every size collect written texts, from documents and notes to surveys and forms. However, these rich sources of information can be overwhelming. For example, a community-oriented ...

Teaching computers to make sense of human language has long been a goal of computer scientists. The natural language that people use when speaking to each other is complex and deeply dependent upon ...