Industry Watch

In 2015, I resumed writing a semi-regular column in the Journal of Natural Language Engineering called Industry Watch. Past columns are collected together here, in reverse chronological order; you can also find most of the more recent pieces in a more readable form on Medium.

• 2017 Volume 23 Issue 4: The Commercial NLP Landscape in 2017.
• 2017 Volume 23 Issue 2: NLP in a Post-Truth World.
• 2016 Volume 22 Issue 5: The Return of the Chatbots.
• 2016 Volume 22 Issue 3: Checking In on Grammar Checking.
• 2016 Volume 22 Issue 2: How to Make Money in the Translation Business.
• 2015 Volume 21 Issue 4: NLP meets the Cloud.
• 2015 Volume 21 Issue 2: The Limits of Intelligent Personal Assistants.
• 2008 Volume 14 Issue 1: Language Technology, meet Social Networking.
• 2007 Volume 13 Issue 3: Powerset and the ACL Conference, plus other miscellany.
• 2007 Volume 13 Issue 2: 'PowerSet Hype to Boiling Point', plus other happenings in the marketplace.
• 2007 Volume 13 Issue 1: Is 2007 the Year of Question Answering?
• 2006 Volume 12 Issue 4: on text analytics and new speech apps.
• 2005 Volume 11 Issue 4: on Google vs Microsoft, Nuance aka SpeechWorks, and UIMA.
• 2005 Volume 11 Issue 1: a look at speech and natural language processing products in the news.
• 2004 Volume 10 Issue 2: on spoken language dialog systems, and why they are not natural.
• 2004 Volume 10 Issue 1: on grammar checkers.
• 2003 Volume 09 Issue 4: compares the picture of the natural language processing industry provided by the 1985 Ovum Report with where the field is nearly 20 years on.

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