Azure AI Language vs. IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding

Best suited for large organizations, availability of usage of more than one language in a specific API call. Moderately suited for small and mid sized organizations as the pricing is on a higher end

Incentivized

IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding is a Swiss Army knife that can be used in many scenarios. An extensive list of easy to use APIs is provided making it very easy to integrate it in any environment. The text analysis is decent and above market average. It generates results in many forms to suit may scenarios (important keywords, concepts, sentiment analysis, etc.).

Incentivized

• The data is pre configured that means the AI models that are used by features are not customizable. One needs to send data and have to use the output of the feature in our application
• Availability of customizations in order to adjust some specific requirements
• Availability of Language studio so that one can avoid coding

Incentivized

• Easy to use and extensive APIs.
• Decent accuracy.
• It recognizes concepts and semantic roles.

Incentivized

• The application is hard to use for new users
• Data Integration is complex in nature
• For Mid - sized organizations, the pricing is on higher end

Incentivized

• Improve Sentiment Analysis accuracy.
• Prevent having conflicting results (sad and happy, etc.).
• Foreign names detection.

Incentivized

We haven't used other products. Our experience with Azure, whilst not meeting our needs this time around, was positive, educational and insightful. This was the first time that we had considered using an AI tool to manage and manipulate our data and we were unsure of the capabilities.

Incentivized

• Usage of more than one language in one specific API call
• Question Answering Feature
• Key Phrase Extraction, hence one need to read the entire phrase to understand the context

Incentivized

• Reduced development time.
• Increased solution efficiency in understanding the user.
• Increased solution scalability.

Incentivized