Applied AI

Natural language processing

Turn unstructured text at volume — tickets, reviews, contracts, complaints — into structured data you can actually route, count and act on.

What is natural language processing used for?

NLP turns unstructured text into structured data: classifying enquiries by type, extracting names, dates and amounts from documents, scoring sentiment across reviews, summarising long material, and enabling search by meaning rather than keyword. It is the layer that makes large volumes of writing usable by software.

The value is in the routing, not the analysis

Sentiment dashboards are widely built and rarely acted on. The versions that pay for themselves are the ones wired to a decision: an angry review routed to a manager within the hour, a complaint auto-classified to the right department, a contract clause flagged before signature.

So we start from the action, not the analysis. If nobody would do anything differently as a result of the output, we say so rather than building a dashboard that gets opened twice.

Process

How we deliver it

1Define the decisionWhat action the output willdrive, and who takes it.2Label a sampleBuild a ground-truth setfrom your real text.3Build and measureClassification orextraction, scored againstthe labelled set.4Wire to the actionRouting, alerting or systemupdates — not just a report.5MonitorTrack accuracy as languageand categories drift.
Process flow for Natural language processing
  1. 01

    Define the decision

    What action the output will drive, and who takes it.

  2. 02

    Label a sample

    Build a ground-truth set from your real text.

  3. 03

    Build and measure

    Classification or extraction, scored against the labelled set.

  4. 04

    Wire to the action

    Routing, alerting or system updates — not just a report.

  5. 05

    Monitor

    Track accuracy as language and categories drift.

Deliverables

What you receive

  • A working NLP pipeline against your text sources
  • Labelled ground-truth set, retained for future retraining
  • Accuracy report by category, including confusion cases
  • Integration that triggers the actual downstream action
  • Monitoring and periodic re-evaluation process

Engagement shape

Six to ten weeks. Labelling effort is the main variable and we scope it explicitly.

Tooling

What we typically build with

  • Anthropic API
  • Hugging Face transformers
  • spaCy
  • Python
  • Elasticsearch
  • IndicNLP resources
  • PostgreSQL

Stack decisions follow the problem. This is where we usually start, not a fixed menu.

Frequently asked

Questions we get about this

Does this work for Hindi and Marathi text?

Yes, and increasingly well — modern multilingual models handle Indian languages far better than a few years ago, including romanised and mixed-script writing. Quality is still generally below English and varies by task, so we measure on your data rather than assuming parity.

What about mixed-language text?

Common in Indian customer feedback and handled reasonably by current multilingual models. It is precisely why we build a labelled set from your own text — code-switched writing is where generic benchmarks are least predictive.

Talk it through before you commit

A discovery call is a working session on your constraint, not a sales pitch.

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A short note is enough. You'll hear back from the team, not a bot — usually within one working day.

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