Valuating Text Analytics for Business
Text Analytics or Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics – no matter how you lump it, it poses a current problem of comprehension to business captains. Most technologists get it –...
View ArticleFrom Text to Truth
Or: What we can learn from crowdsourcing Text Analytics can learn a lot from a competing system for getting answers to analytical-like questions. Crowdsourcing is a voluntary effort where collaboration...
View ArticleSpeed, Scale, Automation and Comprehension: The True ROI of Text Analytics
The four corners of the true return from Natural Language Processing and unstructured analytics are Speed, Scale, Automation and Comprehension. Here is how: Speed: text analytics can understand parts...
View ArticleVisual Document Discovery
I’ve been working on a new concept. Well, new to me. I usually find I do a lot of thinking about things that others have already done but I was just unaware of it! Visual Document Discovery is a method...
View ArticleCurrently Reading: Walid Saba
I don’t know how I missed this fellow before but his comments and remarks on analytic methods are similar to mine. I think his essays are totally worth reading and I suggest you add him to your list of...
View ArticleExploring Stanford’s CoreNLP Coreference system
I absolutely love the Stanford CoreNLP library. It has replaced NLTK as my go to library for all things involving fundamental NLP work. It is built upon a Java codebase but works perfectly with...
View ArticleWorld Information Architecture Day includes Nashville
Incredibly, Nashville is one of 15 cities selected for the Global 1 day event World Information Architecture Day. Am I going? Really, you need to ask? I’ll be dragging people to this. What is it? From...
View ArticleWhy Noise Control is so important to Big Data
The Only Principle that Matters in Unstructured Analysis There is a principle which I consider to be the most important in any analytic work. Noise control must be made a priority before any analytic...
View ArticleRealtime Novelty soon a reality
The cicayda devteam has been hard at work in the mountains of East Tennessee on retreat. We have been designing our next generation backbone architecture for the services we deliver. Once we figured...
View ArticleText Analytics and Gorillas playing Golf
First, let’s start with a joke: Three golfers are at the golf club, looking for a fourth for an afternoon tee time. A man overhears their conversation and says, “Well, if you want an interesting game,...
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