Hello Natural Language Understanding (NLU)!

We are super-excited to announce the availability of Watson Natural Language Understanding Service (NLU), offering natural language processing for advanced text analytics.

With a sophisticated suite of natural language processing capabilities, NLU can analyze text and extract meta-data from unstructured content such as concepts, entities, keywords, categories, sentiment, emotion, relations, semantic roles. You can also customize the text analysis with NLU for linguistic nuances specific to your domain or industry (such as entities and relations) with custom models developed using Watson Knowledge Studio. With customization, you can further improve the accuracy of meta-data extraction. Whether it is social media monitoring, content recommendation, or advertising optimization, NLU can be easily put to use for extracting the hard to find insights from unstructured content.

Watch this video to get a quick overview of the service.

Are you interested in diving deeper with NLU?

Check out our technical deep dive video or just test drive the service on Bluemix with our free plan.

Try on Bluemix. It’s free!

You get 1000 free NLU Enrichment items per day with the free plan. You can also try customization with the free plan by using a Watson Knowledge Studio custom model.