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TOPIC EXTRACTION
Vocabulary analysis examines the surface of a document, measuring only its use of words, without taking into consideration the meaning of those words. A far more powerful technique known as semantic analysis uses sophisticated language models to allow the computer to disambiguate whether a word is a name or an action and to make assumptions about its meaning. While not as accurate as trained human analysts, modern semantic analysis methods offer significant accuracy across many types of text, opening the door to performing deeper analyses at an otherwise impossible scale.
How Machines Process Text
Unlike numeric computation, processing human-generated text presents a number of unique challenges to automation. Computers are ...
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