Concept Expansion enables you to build a specialized dictionary for your cognitive applications. You can enable your app to correctly understand industry specific terminology, or local euphemisms...
========== Technology and big data have enabled us to get richer insights into answering complex questions. But computers aren’t perfect. Humans can easily find meaning in text even with bad grammar, metaphors, or slang. For example, we know that “The Big Apple” refers to New York City. Most technology can’t keep up with our ever-changing language. However, there is simply too much data from sources like social media, product reviews, SMS messages, online forums, emails, or audio transcripts, for humans to analyze it all on their own. This is where IBM Watson can help. Introducing IBM Watson Concept Expansion. Concept Expansion mimics the human ability to recognize context clues. Using the Watson Concept Expansion service, you can upload large sets of uns...