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June 14, 2021

Become an NLP Expert and Do More with Your Data!

You know you should be doing more with your language data, and you’ve got a strong suspicion that you’re missing out on some valuable insights as a result. Likewise, even though you’re familiar with AI and natural language processing (NLP), you have limited time to invest in learning and mastering a new technology. You need something that works out-of-box so you can get your application(s) up and running – fast. With the right API, you can do just that.

The best NLP APIs are designed to seamlessly integrate with all your existing software while providing the speed, efficiency and scalability you need to build enterprise-grade solutions and become a natural language processing expert.

Cloud-hosted APIs are ideal if you need something simple to learn and easy to use. Likewise, they can handle the most common linguistic analysis use cases, including:

  • Data extraction and standardization for database or archival storage.
  • Document classification which can be fully automated based on taxonomy/topic.
  • Search, allowing you to create applications that recognize people, locations, and other entities with the help of public knowledge databases like Wikipedia.

However, your API should also be able to handle complex language analysis functions with impressive breadth and depth. For example, expert.ai’s NL API can perform deep linguistic analysis techniques such as part-of-speech (PoS) tagging, lemmatization, morphology, syntactic and sentiment — offering expert insight into your language data.

Likewise, the NL API also has powerful disambiguation functionalities due to its core knowledge graph which clusters words based on their everyday usage in human language. This empowers the API, and any subsequent software with which it communicates, to quickly detect the meaning behind text and documents, no matter how technical or dense.

Many NLP API’s use REST architecture, which is designed to handle heavy data loads with the reliability of an HTTP proxy server and cache so you can seamlessly organize and manage complex applications — without the costly latency delays that put your SLA at risk. And should you need assistance, REST includes easy-to-use documentation resources that are just a click away.

You’ll also want an NL API that is fully compatible with a variety of development tools and platforms such as curl and Postman. This allows you and your team time to deploy your application(s) without the burden of a steep learning curve or time-consuming training.

Like any API, you’ll probably need a developer account and an authorization token to get started. But you won’t be on your own. As part of the developer community, you’ll have access to an extensive array of NLP examples, resources and support to help you get the most of out your natural language-enabled application(s).

You now have the information you need to find an API that meets your needs as both a developer and an aspiring NLP expert. Now all you need to do is test one out.

Click here to try the expert.ai NL API.

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