Overview
Watson Natural Language Understanding
IBM Watson® Natural Language Understanding uses deep learning to extract meaning and metadata from unstructured text data. Get underneath your data using text analytics to extract categories, classification, entities, keywords, sentiment, emotion, relations and syntax.

Now available as AI for IBM partners:
Similar NLU capabilities are part of the IBM Watson NLP Library for Embed®, a containerized library for IBM partners to integrate in their commercial applications.
Features
Domain customization
Train Watson to understand the language of your business and extract customized insights with Watson Knowledge Studio.
Text analytics
Surface real-time actionable insights to provides your employees with the tools they need to pull meta-data and patterns from massive troves of data.
Deploy anywhere
Deploy Watson Natural Language Understanding behind your firewall or on any cloud.
Client stories
Mushi Lab

Mushi Lab
Mushi Lab created Clearscope to analyze high-performing content and identify actionable recommendations, resulting in 15% month-over-month revenue growth.
Global-Regulation

Global-Regulation
Global-Regulation built a comprehensive world law search engine, which indexes, processes, and translates nearly 2 million laws from 100 countries.
Oovvuu

Oovvuu
Oovvuu approached IBM to scale and optimize its content matching technology, to extract the metadata on articles and provide contextually relevant videos to each news article using Watson Natural Language Understanding and Watson Discovery products.
Accrete.AI

Accrete.AI
Accrete.AI used Watson Natural Language Understanding, Watson Knowledge Studio, and Watson Discovery products to understand the linguistic nuances specific to inflation, employment, and other financially relevant topics to address critical issues that fund managers face in financial markets. This helps customers focus on making better decisions and stop wasting time trying to process and contextualize endless digital streams of confusing, constantly changing information.
Related products
Watson Natural Language Processing for Embed
Infuse powerful natural language AI into commercial applications with a containerized library designed to empower IBM partners with greater flexibility
Watson Discovery
Apply natural language processing to discover insights and answers more quickly, improving operational workflows.
Watson Assistant
Address customer requests across channels like digital and voice channels. Guide employees through internal processes. Best of all: allow your teams to focus on higher-value work, all while reducing costs.
Get started now with IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding:
Test drive the natural language AI service on IBM Cloud.
Footnotes
¹“The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Watson Natural Language Processing (NLP) Solutions,” (PDF, 1 MB) (Forrester: 2021), 3.
²“The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Watson Natural Language Processing (NLP) Solutions,” (PDF, 1 MB) (Forrester: 2021), 1.
³, ⁴“The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Watson Natural Language Processing (NLP) Solutions,” (PDF, 1 MB) (Forrester: 2021), 2.