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A new contender emerges

Following up on our previous story on the flame war between Trump and Un, it now seems a new contender has emerged. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has allegedly referred to President Trump as a “moron” in a private … Read More

Rocket Man vs Dotard

After Donald Trump delivered his Rocket Man-speech at the UN, the Elton John song title became a popular talking point on social media. A few days later, Kim Jong Un retaliated by calling Trump a dotard, an outdated English slur for … Read More

Swahili added to Textgain’s text analytics services

Two new web services have been added! You can now process Swahili content using Textgain’s text analytics services. I spent a large portion of my academic career working on language technology for African languages. Me and my colleagues, Peter Waiganjo … Read More

Textgain’s security web services

Textgain is developing new web services for very specific problems, including identifying hate and depression on social media. Recently, we have made notable progress with identifying hate speech, specifically Islamic State (IS/ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) tweets.In a recent announcement (February 2016), Twitter has … Read More

Textgain has launched

Hi! We’ve just launched Textgain (https://textgain.com), an AI spin-off company from the University of Antwerp. We’re excited about our toolkit so far, and we’re brimming with ideas on how to improve it and where to go next. We hope you … Read More