What is Watson Natural Language Understanding?
Analyze text to extract metadata from content such as concepts, entities, keywords, categories, sentiment, emotion, relations, and semantic roles using natural language understanding.
Benefits
Powerful Insights
Engage with a full suite of advanced text analytics features to extract entities, relationships, keywords, semantic roles and more.
Broad Language Coverage
Interpret text in thirteen different languages, with more on its way.
Domain Customization
Apply the knowledge of unique entities and relations in your industry or organization to your data.
Customer success stories
Testimonials
Watson is probably about 80 percent of what we do right now. We are totally wedded to Watson. — Chris Sykes, Chief Executive Officer, Volume Ltd. IBM Watson gives us natural language understanding that moves conversations from casual enquiry towards purchase. — Tim Howard, Marketing Director, Deltic Group Watson is a powerhouse when it comes to natural language processing. — Greg Woolf, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Catalyst Investors
Natural language understanding features
Categories
Categorize your content using a five-level classification hierarchy.
Concepts
Identify high-level concepts that aren't necessarily directly referenced in the text.
Emotions
Analyze emotion conveyed by specific target phrases or by the document as a whole.
Entities
Find people, places, events, and other types of entities mentioned in your content.
Keywords
Search your content for relevant keywords.
Sentiment
Analyze the sentiment toward specific target phrases and the sentiment of the document as a whole.