IBM infuses new capabilities in Watson technologies

Bengaluru: IBM on Wednesday announced several new IBM Watson technologies designed to help organisations begin identifying, understanding and analysing some of the most challenging aspects of the English language with "greater clarity, for greater insights".

The new technologies represent the first commercialisation of key Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to come from IBM Research's Project Debater, the AI system capable of debating humans on complex topics, it said in a statement.

For example, a new advanced sentiment analysis feature is defined to identify and analyse idioms and colloquialisms for the first time, the company said.Phrases, like 'hardly helpful,' or 'hot under the collar,' have been challenging for AI systems because they are difficult for algorithms to spot.