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Enable systems to understand human language
NEW: NLP innovations from IBM Research now available in Watson
IBM Natural Language Understanding is now underpinned by the same technology that powers IBM Research's Project Debater with new enhancements to Watson Discovery expected this year. This marks the first commercial release of key NLP capabilities from IBM Research's Project Debater -- these new capabilities include advanced sentiment analysis, topic clustering, and data summarization features.
Get more value out of unstructured data with natural language processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is one area of artificial intelligence using computational linguistics that provides parsing and semantic interpretation of text, which allows systems to learn, analyze, and understand human language. With Watson's suite of NLP offerings, including Watson Natural Language Understanding (NLU), you can surface concepts, categories, sentiment, and emotion, and apply knowledge of unique entities in your industry to your data, no matter where it lives.
Optimize your advertising with NLP
Ensure proper placement of advertisements based on page content, viewer patterns, and sentiment analysis of social media and other content.
Improve voice-of-customer analysis
Spot trends in customer feedback with NLP to identify business opportunities, address concerns, reduce churn, and drive revenue.
Streamline audience segmentation with NLP
Identify key customer groups for market research and campaign personalization for different segments.
Additional benefits of NLP
Metadata
Extract metadata from unstructured text for deep analysis.
Content recommendation
Recommend similar content to what users are interested in viewing or experiencing.
Data mining
Search through “big data” repositories and quickly uncover relevant answers.
Why Watson for natural language processing?
Save time with out-of-the-box deep learning-based NLP models like named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, part-of-speech tagging, topic modeling and more – built and continuously improved upon by our teams of data scientists, machine learning engineers, and linguistics experts.
IBM Watson Discovery named a 'Leader' in The Forrester Wave™ Cognitive Search Q2 2019 report.
Client stories
See how Watson clients are achieving real business value with natural language processing.
Powerful NLP capabilities
Watson provides a comprehensive suite of natural language processing capabilities through Watson Natural Language Understanding, Watson Discovery, and Watson Knowledge Studio.
How Watson makes sense of natural language
Developers, data scientists, and line-of-business users can deploy out-of-the-box NLP models to extract information from unstructured documents like PDFs, web pages, and Word documents. Easy customization options are provided for fine tuning models for a specific industry or domain.
Watson products and services
Watson Natural Language Understanding
Analyze text to extract metadata from content such as concepts, entities, keywords, categories, sentiment, emotion, topic modeling, part-of-speech-tagging, relations, and semantic roles.
Watson Discovery
Unlock hidden value in data to find answers, monitor trends, and surface patterns with the world’s most advanced cloud-native insight engine.
Watson Knowledge Studio
Teach Watson the language of your domain with custom models that identify entities and relationships unique to your industry in unstructured text.
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Get started with Watson
Apply natural language processing capabilities to your business use cases, including text mining and sentiment analysis of social media or other content. Augment the productivity of your knowledge workers by automating tasks so that they can spend more time on higher value work and less time on text-based analysis.