What is Watson Natural Language Understanding?

Watson Natural Language Understanding is a cloud native product that uses deep learning to extract metadata from text such as entities, keywords, categories, sentiment, emotion, relations, and syntax.

Overview

Powerful Insight Extraction

Get underneath the topics mentioned in your data by using text analysis to extract keywords, concepts, categories and more.

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Extensive Language Support

Analyze your unstructured data in more than thirteen languages.

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High-Accuracy Extraction

Out-of-the-box machine learning models for text mining provide a high degree of accuracy across your content.

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Why Watson NLU?

Deploy Anywhere

Deploy Watson Natural Language Understanding behind your firewall or on any cloud.

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Domain Customization

Train Watson to understand the language of your business and extract customized insights with Watson Knowledge Studio.

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Data Control

Maintain ownership of your data with the assurance that your data is safe and secure. IBM will not collect or store your data.

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Interactive COVID-19 incident map

IBM Watson NLP powered COVID-19 Incident Map

The weather channel created an interactive COVID-19 incident map by using IBM Watson Natural Language Processing (NLP) to extract data from the World Health Organization, as well as state and local agencies. IBM Watson Discovery extracts insights from PDFs, HTML, tables and images, and Watson Natural Language Understanding extracts insights from natural language text. Together, these two technologies are populating the map with the latest and most-up-to-date information.

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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.

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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.

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Mushi Lab

Mushi Lab created Clearscope to help customers analyze high-performing content and identify actionable recommendations with less effort by leveraging Watson Natural Language Understanding for keyword extraction.

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By using our advanced natural language processing (NLP) service, we give developers the tools to process and extract valuable insights from unstructured data.

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