The Decision Science, AI and Natural Language Processing team at IBM Research-Ireland recently presented a conference paper called “Decision Conversations Decoded” at the 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT). The team also presented a demo of our virtual assistant prototype, which analyses collaborative decision discussions to identify alternatives and criteria. Development of this conversational analytics tool is part of a large body of research in natural language processing at IBM Research AI, a key factor in our mission to develop broad AI that learns across different disciplines to augment human intelligence. Natural language processing is a central component of IBM Project Debater, which debuted last week. Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics and represents a big step toward mastering language, one of the great boundaries in AI.