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Everyone from Google to Microsoft is looking for a way to a way to make computers more communative with humans. After a successful demonstration of IBM's computer named Watson beating out two of Jeopardy's most successful competitors much attention has been given to NLP. This course discusses the challenges and successes in NLP.
Government intelligence groups (MI5, FBI) need to find out about incidents that criminals are planning so they can take action before the criminals do.
Journalists need to figure out important news out of all the sources that they have available to them
Publishers of encyclopedias and dictionaries
Business intelligence people so they can follow their competitors and make decisions about processes.
Knowledge engineers (students, professional researchers)
