The fastest-growing area of machine learning science

First, Text Analysis and Natural Language Processing make up the largest cluster in the network. Scientific papers here point to advances in machine learning through pattern recognition in language, leading to everything from faster crime analysis to more efficient assessments of clinical narratives. While much of the network is related to health and medicine, the fourth-largest cluster is focused on environmental topics; here, machine learning helps predict how climate shifts affect, say, small mammals in Alaska or plant species in Peninsular Thailand. The Artificial Neural Networks cluster, on the upper left, seems to have a foot in both worlds: a significant number of papers on neural networks deal with human health, while others deal with the health of lakes or forests.