Text Analytics Summit 2008

Here are my slides from me presentation today at the Text Analytics Summit 2008. I have to say, I was impressed with the event. I had initially thought that it was going to be less technical and more of a sales/networking event. However, it turned out to be very engaging, with a great mix of practitioners from all over the map. Of particular note was the clear trend in mining social media, and the importance of both sentiment analysis and influence/authority analysis.

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[Krishna Kumaraswamy]

Thanks for putting up the slides - access to the references is definitely useful.

You mentioned a paper from WWW about how social networks behave/evolve over time. Do you have a link to that?

Thanks,
Krishna

[Seth Grimes]

Matt, I'm really glad you enjoyed the event and participated.

Seth

[Guy Hagen]

Very succinct and well structured presentation, and it captures the current state of the field quite well. However - what about efforts to develop NLP for automated summarization and conversation (semantic) analysis? They're a long way from being robust, but the field is moving fast. Some large players (Nielsen, Biz360, Edelmen, etc.) are already delivering content analysis services in which market / conversation segmentation is the key differentiator.

[T.R.]

I saw your presentation at the summit. Could you expand on content->subjectivity and structure->influence relationships? In particular, by "content" do you mean what opinion/belief/etc. is being expressed and by "structure" are you referring to actual html links to or from an expressed opinion.

Thanks!