What are the state-of-the-art real world NLP applications on social media data?


What are the state-of-the-art real world NLP applications on social media data?

This cuts two ways.  There is a whole universe of Sentiment Analysis applications for social media; however, there are also the natural language understanding (NLU) [1] applications, such as conversational agents and social bots, increasingly used  for instance in social CRM.  Examples of social bots include variations on “autoblogging” platforms, such as:

a) http://rep.licants.org

b) http://www.weavrs.com

c) http://github.com/wilson428/Robottke

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_understanding