Introduction In this cognitive area, many people are interested in using natural language processing (NLP) to extract insights from their large collections of unstructured text. There are two main approaches to natural language processing: rules-based…
Everywhere I look I see people trying to solve problems with machine learning. It’s an exciting time to be a cognitive developer! One area I see these people struggling in is gathering sufficient training data…
I’ve have a lot of wonderful support in my career and I’ve been reflecting on how to give back to others in the industry. One of the hardest parts of giving back is the long…
I recently completed a seven-post series on the IBM Watson Developer Blog about Cognitive System Testing. These posts reflect some hard-learned lessons from the past few years. Cognitive systems present some interesting challenges for testing-minded…
Several years ago my wife decided to make custom multi-colored Christmas light strands by changing the individual light bulbs on solid-colored strands. The task seemed simple, if tedious, enough: Step 1. Get 100 bulb strands of…
In part 1 of Training a personal chatbot with Watson Developer Cloud APIs I gave an intro to text classification and how you could use it to create a chat bot that screened your incoming questions…
The Watson Developer Cloud APIs are intended to give you building blocks for building your own applications with the cognitive capabilities of Watson. There’s been a lot of press on combining Watson and Slack, and…
In my post on Calculating confidence of natural language processing results using machine learning I described building a logistic regression model using two simple features. I learned a few things and made a few mistakes along the…
I’ve been building a set of natural language processing (NLP) annotators and have frequently been asked about my confidence in the results. This is an interesting question with a simple answer and a more complex…
This is my first introduction to using WordPress. Installing WordPress with my cPanel-based site hosting was a snap. +1 to the folks at Softaculous who built the installer, and here is the shout-out you requested: I…