Quote from heech:
I really don't have any inside knowledge. It's just an educated guess. My technical background in computer science touches on pattern recognition, and to a lesser degree natural language processing.
I think the above is the only reasonable explanation I can come up with, for how natural language processing could be applied to the markets.
Trying to intelligently parse/interpret someone's spoken speech (like when you talk to an automated phone system) is similar, in many ways, to trying to interpret whether the markets are going up/down on the short term. Did they mis-speak that syllable? Is it more likely that syllable belong to the previous word, or is it a new word? Is this a new sentence?
