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Lexalytics Celebrates Its Anniversary: 20 Years of NLP Innovation

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We’ve pioneered a number of industry firsts, including the first commercial sentiment analysis engine, the first Twitter/microblog-specific text analytics in 2010, the first semantic understanding based on Wikipedia in 2011, and the first unsupervised machine learning model for syntax analysis in 2014.

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Dude, Where’s My Neural Net? An Informal and Slightly Personal History

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Fast-forward a couple of decades: I was (and still am) working at Lexalytics, a text-analytics company that has a comprehensive NLP stack developed over many years. Ignore the plateau around 2010: this is probably an artifact of the incompleteness of the MAG dump.) I was out of the neural net biz. Jordan, ed.