India, June 13 -- If you are looking for the next emerging job title or sought-after skill set that will make companies compete to hire you and pay you a premium, consider gaining some expertise in working with unstructured data and natural language processing.

While both machine learning and natural language processing skills are in high demand in the market today, NLP experts are harder to find.

"NLP, even among analytics, is among the hardest skills in the market," Sameer Gupta told InformationWeek. He is the AI and advanced analytics leader at EY, specializing in the financial services market. Gupta also recently authored a whitepaper about using NLP and ML to harness the insights from unstructured data.

It is the combination of NL...