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{{Short description|Software service}}
{{Infobox product
| title            = MeaningCloud
| image            = MeaningCloudlogo.png
| launch year      = 2015
| company          = MeaningCloud LLC
| url              = https://www.meaningcloud.com/
}}
'''MeaningCloud''' is a [[Software as a service|Software as a Service]] product that enables users to embed text analytics and semantic processing in any application or system. It was previously branded as Textalytics.

MeaningCloud extends the concept of semantic API with a [[Cloud computing|cloud-based]] framework that makes the integration of semantic processing into any system something close to a [[Engineering:Plug and play|plug-and-play]] experience.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://altaplana.com/TA2014|title = Text Analytics 2014: User Perspectives on Solutions and Providers|date = 9 July 2014|work = Alta Plana}}</ref> MeaningCloud is available both in [[Software as a service|SaaS]] 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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=14 June 2013 |title=Daedalus Calls for Development of High-Level Semantic APIs |work=Semanticweb.com |url=http://semanticweb.com/daedalus-calls-for-development-of-high-level-semantic-apis_b37870}}</ref> 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.

In June of 2022, [[Company:Reddit|Reddit]] acquired MeaningCloud for an undisclosed sum. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Reddit acquires natural language processing company MeaningCloud |url=https://social.techcrunch.com/2022/07/01/reddit-acquires-natural-language-processing-company-meaningcloud/ |access-date=2022-07-18 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-11 |title=Reddit Buys Natural Language Processing Startup MeaningCloud to Boost Product & Advertising |url=https://voicebot.ai/2022/07/11/reddit-buys-natural-language-processing-startup-meaningcloud-to-boost-product-advertising/ |access-date=2022-07-18 |website=Voicebot.ai |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Functionality ==
* [[Information extraction|Topic Extraction]]: identifies appearances of [[Named-entity recognition|named entities]] and abstract concepts in the text.
* [[Document classification|Text Classification]]: assigns a text to one or several categories in a predefined [[Taxonomy (general)|taxonomy]].
* Sentiment Analysis: assigns a [[Philosophy:Polarity item|polarity]] (positive, negative, neutral) to a document or to the individual topics or attributes appearing in a document (aspect-based sentiment).
* [[Document clustering|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 [[Learning curve|learning curve]] 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.
* [[Software development kit|SDKs]] and [[Plug-in (computing)|plug-ins]] increase the convenience and integrability of the APIs in the most common environments and platforms.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-5-natural-language-processing-apis-stack/analysis/2014/07/28|title = How 5 Natural Language Processing APIs Stack Up|date = 28 July 2014|work = ProgrammableWeb}}</ref> MeaningCloud provides '''SDKs '''for [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], PHP, and [[Visual Basic]], and '''plug-ins''' for Microsoft Excel and [[Software:General Architecture for Text Engineering|GATE]].<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://semanticweb.com/daedulus-takes-meaning-service-excel-gate-cms-systems_b43600|title = Daedalus Takes Meaning-As-A-Service To Excel, GATE And CMS Systems|date = 8 July 2014|work = Semanticweb.com}}</ref>

== Research Applications ==
Meaningcloud has been applied to compare French and English Tweets sentiment.<ref> An informal institution comparative study of occupational safety knowledge sharing via French and English Tweets: languaculture, weak-strong ties and AI sentiment perspectives, [[Safety Science]], Volume 147, 2022, 105602, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105602.</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Software as a service]]
* [[Natural language processing]]
* [[Computational linguistics]]
* Text mining
* Media monitoring
* [[Social:Social media measurement|Social media measurement]]
* [[Semantic publishing]]
* [[Engineering:Semantic technology|Semantic technology]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://www.meaningcloud.com/ MeaningCloud website]
[[Category:Natural language processing]]
[[Category:Computational linguistics]]

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