An Inside Update on Natural Language Processing

This article is an interview with computational linguist Jason Baldridge. It's for anyone who's interested in, or needs to know about, natural language processing (NLP). Jason and NLP go way back. He joined the University of Texas linguistics faculty in 2005 and, a few years back, helped build a text-analytics system for social-media agency Converseon. Jason's Austin start-up, People Pattern, applies NLP and machine learning for social-audience insights; he co-founded the company in 2013 and serves as chief scientist.