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

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Overseas media companies including Forbes Media, the New York Times, Pearson and News Corp. also compete in the market for Chinese-language news and analysis, though face restrictions.

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

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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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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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At the time, the Home Office responded that DNA testing would not be used alone but would be combined with language analysis and investigative interviewing techniques.

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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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