The software uses an analysis of language, statistics, and call data.

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Finance is the language of business, so take time to sit down with your analysis and reflect on what it is telling you.

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Deep, natural-language analysis could mean big things for business, health and anything where massive amounts of data need to be scoured smartly.

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The sentiment analysis sounded like fun, there was anxiety, fear, happy, sad and lots of NLP (natural language processing) derived moods.

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Speaking at the 2011 High Performance Computing for Wall Street, Edward Epstein of IBM Research, explained that Watson was designed to work with natural language content and deep analysis drawing on all the available content.

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Students will help improve Watson's language and domain analysis capabilities by judging the evidence it provides and analyzing its answers within the domain of medicine.

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