Noida, May 27 (IANS): Leading global IT services company HCL Technologies has been named winner of the 'Best Innovation in Natural Language Processing (NLP)' award at the AIconics Awards during the "AI Summit" in London recently.

AIconics are the world’s only independently judged awards celebrating the drive, innovation and hard work in the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community.

"This award gives testimony to the innovation and pragmatic implementation of 'Natural Language Processing' in the 21st century enterprise," Kalyan Kumar, executive vice president at HCL Technologies, said in a statement.

HCL was also named as a finalist in the "Best Intelligent Assistant" category which showcases companies making ground-breaking advancements in virtual assistants and advanced voice/text recognition capabilities.

The driving force behind HCL’s success at the AIconics Awards is "HCL DryICE" -- the company’s innovative autonomics and orchestration framework. 

Enabling more than 40 micro services from a single platform, "HCL DryICE" is benefiting HCL’s customers across Digital and Next-Generation IT and IoT projects. 

"Our 'DryICE' platform is at the cutting edge of this innovation, with such functionality being embedded in many of the micro services we deliver," Kumar added.