Special Characters I grew up in central Michigan. When I moved to the Southeast, I learned the word “character” had a very special meaning when applied to people. Someone described...
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What Is a Homograph? What is a synonym for thesaurus? You may have heard this question floating around as a social media meme or at a conference for taxonomists. Interestingly,...
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Text Analytics Forum This year’s Text Analytics Forum was one of five conferences at the 2018 KMWorld in Washington, D.C. Over the course of two days, a wide variety of...
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Bias in the Machine Let’s say you upload a photo of yourself and the software automatically tags your face as a gorilla. Your first reaction might be you find this...
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Unstructured Data There’s much written about unstructured data and how it is notoriously over-generated and underutilized. What is unstructured data? Wikipedia provides the following definition: Unstructured data (or unstructured information)...
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Voice of the Customer In a previous blog, Text Analytics Use Cases – The Unknowns, I wrote about the more general use cases in which text analytics can be used...
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Text Analytics & Search Text analytics processes and outputs can be difficult to imagine when discussed rather than shown. Just how does one put text analytics into practice and how...
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Getting Meta “In epistemology, and often in common use, the prefix meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata are data about data (who has produced...
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Artificial Intelligence for the Business McKinsey & Company recently published “An executive’s guide to AI” in which they discuss the business use cases for Machine Learning and Deep Learning. The...
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The Unknowns My last blog (Text Analytics Use Cases – The Knowns) focused on working with knowns in text analytics. More often than not, text analytics is used to expose...
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