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Jan 3
1 min

Voice Assistance in 2019

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 mont...

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Robert Dale

Oct 4, 2019
1 min

Five Tips for a Successful API

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

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Robert Dale

Jul 3, 2019
1 min

NLP commercialization in the last 25 years

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

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Robert Dale

Dec 15, 2018
1 min

Law and Word Order: NLP in Legal Tech

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...

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Robert Dale

Aug 29, 2018
1 min

Text Analytics APIs, Part 2: The Smaller Players

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

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Robert Dale

Mar 23, 2018
1 min

Text Analytics APIs, Part 1: The Bigger Players

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 t...

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Robert Dale

Oct 28, 2017
1 min

The Pros and Cons of Listening Devices

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

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Robert Dale

Feb 4, 2017
1 min

NLP in a Post-Truth World

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 ...

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Robert Dale

Nov 23, 2016
10 min

The Return of the Chatbots

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

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