Written by Alexander Raginsky Wit.ai, the Y Combinator-backed startup that enables developers to add Siri-like language processing to their apps, has been acquired by Facebook. According to a blog post from the startup, Wit.ai is joining the social network, though its “platform will remain open and become entirely free for everyone,” it says. Wit.ai’s API lets developers add voice
Written by Alexander Raginsky Automated Insights — the Durham, North Carolina-based startup backed by the Associated Press, Samsung and Steve Case that has built technology to automatically take raw data and translate it into narratives that look like they’ve been written by a human — has been acquired by the $14 billion private equity firm Vista Equity Partners and
Written by Alexander Raginsky While being passionate about all the ways the language finds its way in technology – as the new user interface input via speech recognition, or with natural language understanding, I have special feelings about machine translation being my first step to linguistic technologies. Recently I have read about an excellent and innovative case for machine
Written by Alexander Raginsky 11th VIPS Advanced School on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Image Processing, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit? di Verona, Verona (Italy) 19-21 May 2014
Written by Alexander Raginsky Imagine your company has just launched a new product: the Acme iSolution. You’ve got an ad campaign under way and you want to know how people are reacting. That would make you a good candidate for sentiment analysis, a set of technologies that can tell you whether discussions on social networks are generally positive or
