Matthew Hurst is a professional in their field. Colleagues describe him as "Matthew held the primary responsibility to develop a wide range of natural language processing components at Intelliseek/BuzzMetrics, both in syntactic analysis and semantic analysis, one of which is the sentiment analysis component that worked much better than any other approach we are aware of. He has a solid idea about what would work and what wouldn't and guide us to the right technology. He also co-founded BlogPulse.com and implemented various experimental features rapidly… Show more" and "I was most impressed by Matthew's thorough dedication to creating a system that would fit our needs. He provided excellent value. I would not hesitate hiring him again."