Topic Detection in NLP: The Top APIs in 2022

Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, such as Topic Detection, can process large amounts of data to extract valuable insights from social media platforms, news sites, podcasts, etc. These tools work by segmenting texts into smaller parts, analyzing each segment against a standardized taxonomy like the IAB Taxonomy, and outputting a summary score. Several APIs for Topic Detection are available on the market, such as AssemblyAI's, Amazon Comprehend's, TextRazor's, Azure Cognitive Services', MeaningCloud's, and uClassify's. The use cases of these tools span across Conversation Intelligence Platforms, Customer Research Platforms, and Revenue Intelligence Platforms to automate data analysis, gain customer insights, and optimize sales coaching among others.