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05/02/2008. The NSF today granted The Echo Nest, a music intelligence company that offers enhanced music search, recommendation and interactivity technology to online music companies $500,000 to continue developing its unique data content technology.

Specifically the grant will help Echo Nest develop its "Musical Brain," that applies machine learning techniques to both natural language description and Internet link graphs to model communities in order to predict preference, taste and sentiment for different kinds of media (music, TV, online media, video games, books), the NSF said.

The Musical Brain is a large-scale data mining platform that reads about and listens to all online music content. The idea behind the technology is to integrate people-focused community and sentiment analysis technologies into an autonomous, learning and scale-free media knowledge service for digital entertainment providers and marketers that can change the way digital content is marketed and sold, the NSF stated.

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