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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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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Evri uses semantic analysis and natural language processing to create the topic pages.

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Natural language-processing experts, visualization and integration engineers, and product managers also play a role in the data analysis chain.

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