IBM Watson Gains The Ability To Understand Complex Topics

IBM recently announced several new Watson technologies designed to help organizations identify, understand, and analyze some of the most challenging aspects of the English language with greater clarity and insights. These new features are considered the first commercialization of key Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to come from IBM Research's Project Debater. There is a new advanced sentiment analysis feature defined to identify and analyze idioms and colloquialisms for the first time. So it can recognize phrases such as "hardly helpful" or "hot under the collar." Phrases like those have been challenging for artificial intelligence systems since they are difficult for algorithms to spot.