The end of the calendar year always seems like a good time to pause for breath and reflect on what’s been happening over the last 12 months, and that’s as tr...

It’s now remarkably easy to release to the world a cloud-based application programming interface (API) that provides some software function as a service. As ...

The Natural Language Engineering journal is now in its 25th year. The editorial preface to the first issue back in 1995 emphasized that the focus of the jo...

The law has language at its heart, so it’s not surprising that software that operates on natural language has played a role in some areas of the legal profes...

It seems like there’s yet another cloud-based text analytics Application Programming Interface (API) on the market every few weeks. If you’re interested in b...

If you’re in the market for an off-the-shelf text analytics API, you have a lot of options. You can choose to go with a major player in the software world, f...

Vastly improved speech recognition, backed by a more slowly improving ability to make sense of the recognised speech, has brought state-of-the-art NLP into o...

We live in a post-truth world. It now matters more whether people think something is true than whether something really is true. This is dangerous, and techn...

By all accounts, 2016 is the year of the chatbot. Some commentators take the view that chatbot technology will be so disruptive that it will eliminate the ne...