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Leveraging user-generated social media content with text-mining examples

IBM Journey to AI blog

One of the best ways to take advantage of social media data is to implement text-mining programs that streamline the process. What is text mining? This valuable information helps decision-makers refine marketing strategies, improve product offerings and deliver a more personalized customer experience.

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

Lexalytics

I was out of the neural net biz. 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. The CNN was a 6-layer neural net with 132 convolution kernels and (don’t laugh!) Hinton (again!)

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Using Machine Learning for Sentiment Analysis: a Deep Dive

DataRobot Blog

This is one of the reasons why detecting sentiment from natural language (NLP or natural language processing ) is a surprisingly complex task. It could be anything from a sentence to a paragraph to a longer-form collection of text. We use the term “document” loosely.)