“In fact, topic tagging at various semantic resolutions is a gateway solution approach to NLU for two reasons: (1) Text classification into topics is a precursor to most higher level NLU tasks such as sentiment detection, discourse analysis, episodic memory, and even question answering (the quintesse…”— Suman Deb Roy, hackernoon.com
“If understanding language and other phenomena through statistical analysis does not count as true understanding, then humans have no understanding either.”— Ray Kurzweil, amazon.com