eContext

eContext is a semantic text classification engine that assigns structured topics to unstructured text. The vendor describes it as the world's largest such engine, and it classifies web pages, social media handles, pasted text and video content against a taxonomy in real time, at rates it describes as thousands of records per second. Visitors can try it from the home page by entering a URL, a Twitter handle or a block of text and seeing how eContext maps the content to categories. The site also promotes a video explaining how classification works and a whitepaper on using it to power chatbots and virtual agents. The practical job is to turn raw text into consistent, structured data so that content can be organized, targeted or routed by topic. It is aimed at companies that need to structure large volumes of text, such as publishers, advertisers and teams building conversational agents. The vendor lists a Chicago area phone number and an email address for inquiries. The vendor does not publish prices. The site offers no plans or pricing page, and interested buyers are directed to contact the company.