Chapter 9. Untamed text: exploring the next frontier

 

In this chapter

  • What’s next in search and NLP
  • Searching across multiple languages and detecting emotions in content
  • Resources on emerging tools, applications, and ideas
  • Higher orders of language processing, such as semantics, discourse, and pragmatics

Whew! We’ve come a long way, and we don’t just mean in terms of your patience in waiting for this book to be complete. (It’s very much appreciated!) A few years back, search was all the rage and social networking was just taking off. Ideas that we felt were just coming into their own in the search and NLP space are now powering a wide range of applications, from very large-scale Fortune 100 companies on down to freshly minted startups and everything in between.

9.1. Semantics, discourse, and pragmatics: exploring higher levels of NLP

9.2. Document and collection summarization

9.3. Relationship extraction

9.4. Identifying important content and people

9.5. Detecting emotions via sentiment analysis

9.6. Cross-language information retrieval

9.7. Summary

9.8. References