#TechforTheTechie: Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
by Paul Ekwere
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Being a general tech geek and a fan of all things data and
analytics, I woke up this morning and in my spare time started learning
something on sentiment analytics.
Sentiment Analysis in
the words of a certain Mr Seth Grimes, is a set of methods, typically (but
not always) implemented in computer software, that detect, measure, report, and
exploit attitudes, opinions, and emotions in online, social, and enterprise
information sources. (As an aside, what makes it “analysis” is that you’re
doing it systematically, with some goal in mind.)
The reason why I’m all over this right now is because I have
a little pet project I'm working on which has to do with analysing my Twitter
data but that's beside the point of why I decided to post this actually.
So here's the thing, being a massive Arsenal fan as well
(& given my generally short attention span), while deeply embroiled in my
research on the logic of deep learning, Twitter APIs and php coding, a random
thought popped into my head "I wonder what time the Arsenal game is on
today?"
So I decided in the spirit of the moment, what with my
mind... well, half my mind still on machine learning, natural language
processing and all I decided to run a little (absolutely non-scientific) test to see who does natural language
processing better.
Siri (Apple), Google or Microsoft’s very own Cortana.
Very handy for me that I had an iPhone, an android
...scratch that the android phone of the year the OnePlus 2, and a Microsoft
Surface on hand.
So here's what happened.
Click on the link
to hear what actually transpired (I actually recorded this). The results are
quite interesting.
Spoiler alert, not at all what you'd expect! There's a bit of a surprise at the end as well.
There’s another
recording here, just because I'm a massive fan of Cortana (& I know
you are too). A word of warning: spoilers! You need to have listened to the
first recording before this!
And in case that hyperlink doesn’t work, here’s the link to
the second recording.
Okay, my work here is done…. Off to watch that Arsenal game
now!
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