MeaningCloud is a

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product that enables users to embed

text analytics Text mining, text data mining (TDM) or text analytics is the process of deriving high-quality information from plain text, text. It involves "the discovery by computer of new, previously unknown information, by automatically extracting information ...

and semantic processing in any application or system. It was previously branded as Textalytics. MeaningCloud extends the concept of semantic

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with a

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framework that makes the integration of semantic processing into any system something close to a

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experience. MeaningCloud is available both in

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mode and on-premises.

History

MeaningCloud is a brand by MeaningCloud LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of MeaningCloud Europe S.L., previously known as Daedalus. Daedalus was founded in 1998 by Jose C Gonzalez and other colleagues as a spin-off from their Artificial Intelligence research lab at the

Technical University of Madrid The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid (, UPM) is a public university, located in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging different Technical Schools of Engineering and Arc ...

. In June of 2022,

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acquired MeaningCloud for an undisclosed sum.

Functionality

* Topic Extraction: identifies appearances of named entities and abstract concepts in the text. * Text Classification: assigns a text to one or several categories in a predefined

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. *

Sentiment Analysis Sentiment analysis (also known as opinion mining or emotion AI) is the use of natural language processing, text analysis, computational linguistics, and biometrics to systematically identify, extract, quantify, and study affective states and subje ...

: assigns a polarity (positive, negative, neutral) to a document or to the individual topics or attributes appearing in a document (aspect-based sentiment). * Text Clustering: discovers the underlying themes in a document collection and groups these documents according to their similarities and their adherence to those themes.

Integration and customization

Advanced APIs provide a functionality optimized for diverse applications and ease of use. In addition, customization and integration capabilities offer a fast

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and a short time to obtain results. * Customized resource management tools allow users to easily incorporate their own semantic resources (dictionaries, taxonomies, sentiment models) to adapt the operation of the system to their needs. * SDKs and plug-ins increase the convenience and integrability of the APIs in the most common environments and platforms. MeaningCloud provides SDKs for

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, Python,

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, and

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, and plug-ins for

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and

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Research Applications

Meaningcloud has been applied to compare French and English Tweets sentiment. An informal institution comparative study of occupational safety knowledge sharing via French and English Tweets: languaculture, weak-strong ties and AI sentiment perspectives,

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, Volume 147, 2022, 105602, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105602.

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