The Power of Natural Language Processing – Archie.AI – Medium

Today, there are multiple large companies offering cloud services for AI and NLP. Google has its Cloud Machine Learning Engine; Microsoft has a series of Cognitive services APIs through Azure; IBM's Watson Ecosystem has spread out into various sectors, and it's Natural Language Processing services have been at the forefront; and Amazon, the biggest cloud player, has many Machine Learning tools offered through AWS such as Rekognition, Polly and Lex. From the perspective of NLP, there are several services available to engineers based on the level of customization you're interested in. On one hand you have open source, hands-on, APIs like Tensor Flow, Stanford's Core NLP suite, Caffe, Theano, Torch, CNTK and more. Dealing with such APIs requires you to create, train and deploy your own data-set, which might not be feasible for a lot of teams.