Plasticity (YC S17) — Natural language processing APIs for developers
Plasticity builds APIs that help developers create human-like natural language interfaces. We believe in a future where computers can actually understand language and communicate.
Plasticity is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Natural language processing APIs for developers. The founders listed are Ajay Patel (Founder), Alex Sands (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 28, 2017).
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Plasticity builds APIs that help developers create human-like natural language interfaces. We believe in a future where computers can actually understand language and communicate.
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Plasticity is a simple, powerful Natural Language Processing API built for developers. Use our API to handle tokenization, parts of speech tagging, dependency parsing, relation extraction, named entity recognition, and more.
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Ajay Patel
Founder
https://ajayp.app
Alex Sands
Founder
Co-founder of Plasticity, making software to understand natural language. Previously worked on product and engineering teams at Apple, Google Nest, and Comcast. Austin, TX (previously NY, SF, and DC).
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