So I know this is something like two and a half years old now and probably much improved upon by research at IBM or elsewhere, but I do think it says a lot about how far we've come--and how idiosyncratic English can be--that we can have stuff like this: [YOUTUBE]rya9qaUJfeY[/YOUTUBE]
Being in clinical research, I've been quite interested in NLP as a potential application in the detection of safety signals among all those handwritten medical charts (billions!) We are years away from getting a handle on all that data!