Facebook’s data scientists have crunched the numbers (well, the text) and — if fan sentiment is any indicator — it looks like Denver is the Super Bowl favorite. Over the course… Read more »
Everyone’s more interested in artificial intelligence since news broke that Google acquired a secretive startup called DeepMind. The technology has big promise, but make no mistake: It’s not sentient yet, and… Read more »
I analyzed more than 5,000 posts by Gigaom writers in 2013 to identify the words and phrases we use the most. Can you guess what they are? Some of them might surprise you. Read more »
While much of the talk around data the past few years has been about how much we can store and what we can learn from it, the future — and this… Read more »
A group of Stanford machine learning students has created a new service for analyzing and classifying passages of text. But the highlight is an easy-to-use feature for classifying whether tweets are… Read more »
Yahoo has acquired SkyPhrase and will incorporate the team into Yahoo Labs. SkyPhrase had built a natural-language processing platform that returned relevant statistics in response to search queries entered using everyday… Read more »
A group of researchers from Stanford has been working on deep learning models that can make sense of whole sentences at a time, and has recently trained its models on a… Read more »
Yelp has announced the winners of its inaugural Yelp Dataset Challenge, and the four entries it chose actually seem pretty useful. They run the gamut from a technique to highlight key… Read more »
Machine learning startup BigML now supports text data in its cloud-based prediction service. It has always analyzed numerical fields in complex datasets to determine the relationship between them and any given… Read more »
Google has released another paper showing off the power of its deep learning techniques for text analysis. It shows how models can detect similar usage of words across different languages, meaning… Read more »