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5.2 Turning Tweets into Knowledge: An Introduction to Text Analytics

Quick Question

Which of these problems is the least likely to be a good application of natural language processing?

 Processing medical records to extract symptoms  close

 Judging the winner of a poetry contest  check

 Flagging customer reviews on Amazon as problematic  close

 Automatically organizing emails based on their content  close

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Explanation Judging the winner of a poetry contest requires a deep level of human understanding and emotion. Perhaps someday a computer will be able to accurately judge the winner of a poetry contest, but currently the other three tasks are much better suited for natural language processing.

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