Big data for text: Next-generation text understanding and analysis
Monday, March 7, 2016 - 12:01
in Mathematics & Economics
News portals and social media are rich information sources, for example for predicting stock market trends. Today, numerous service providers allow for searching large text collections by feeding their search engines with descriptive keywords. Keywords tend to be highly ambiguous, though, and quickly show the limits of current search technologies. Computer scientists from Saarbruecken developed a novel text analysis technology that considerably improves searching very large text collections by means of artificial intelligence.