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Dementia (a severe decline in mental ability) is ranked as the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and impacts an estimated 5 million Americans. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, health care costs associated with dementia totaled $259 billion in 2017 and are projected to reach $1.1 trillion by 2050.

This article was written by Sudhir Jha (Senior Vice President & Global Head of Product Management and Strategy), and was edited and created in partnership with Infosys. For more information about content and promotional partnerships with Emerj, visit the Emerj Partnerships page.

Episode summary: Most NLP applications we hear about involve marketing, customer service, and other customer-facing functions - but that there are NLP-related opportunities in other back-end functions as well.  

Emerj's own Daniel Faggella will be speaking at BootstrapLaps Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference on April 12th, 2018. Leading up to the #AAI18 event, we've partnered with BootstrapLabs to spark a conversation around AI in industry by putting together an article about Dan's recent conversation with  Nicolai Wadstrom, Founder and CEO of BootstrapLabs.

In a white paper about the digitalization of the chemistry and advanced materials sector published by the World Economic Forum and Accenture, total global chemical sales in 2014 amounted to $3.5 trillion and is expected to rise to $6.9 trillion by 2030.

While customer service is making its way to Facebook Messenger and other burgeoning platforms - a massive percentage of customer support inquiries are handled the way they have been for years: Over the phone or on chat.

Episode Summary: Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be applied to tasks such as customer service handling or in chatbots to answer fact based questions. Another emerging application for NLP is in content marketing and content production.

My most recent TEDx is titled “Can AI Make the World a Better Place?” - but this title is somewhat misleading.

The transportation domain is beginning to apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) in mission-critical tasks (for example, self-driving vehicles carrying passengers) where the reliability and safety of an AI system will be under question from the general public. Major challenges in the transportation industry like capacity problems, safety, reliability, environmental pollution, and wasted energy are providing ample opportunity (and potential for high ROI) for AI innovation.

Tech Provider: Lexalytics - A natural language processing and text analytics software and service provider.
Client Company: Voziq - Offers software to help customers reduce churn and gain insight on their customers.
Industry: Media
Function: Business intelligence and analytics, Process automation
Tech Provider Contact: Charles Le Gros