The Sentiment Analysis Symposium is your opportunity to keep up technologies and solutions that help you discover’business value’in opinions, emotions, and attitudes in social media, news, and enterprise feedback, to further your business goals.’The symposium, taking place July 15-16, 2015 in New York,’is a business focused conference that offers a mix of technical and applied presentations, panels, and workshops. Visit’sentimentsymposium.com for information and to register.’
New this year: A half-day segment (within the workshop track) on Sentiment Analysis for Financial Markets, complementing the symposium’s coverage of consumer, public, and social sentiment for market research,’customer‘experience, healthcare, government, and other application areas.’
Presentation coverage includes:
* Industry analysts Dave Schubmehl from IDC and Anjali Lai from Forrester Research.
* Agency representatives Francesco D’Orazio from Face, Brook Miller from MotiveQuest, and Karla Wachter, Waggener Edstrom.
* Technical solution innovators including Bethany Bengtson from Bottlenose, Moritz Sudhof from Kanjoya, Dr. Karo Moilanen from TheySay, Dr. Brian Davis from The Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Jennifer Sikos of Decisive Analytics Corporation, and CrowdFlower CEO Lukas Biewald.
* Speakers on sentiment analysis in healthcare from the Advisory Board Company, Westat, and DSE Analytics.
* A set of forward-looking talks on wearables, speech analytics, emotional response via facial recognition, and virtual assistants.
The program includes a set of lightning talks — quick takes on technologies, solutions, and services — and networking opportunities.
Workshops include:
– A half-day Sentiment Analysis tutorial, taught by Prof. Bing Liu
– Natural Language Generation, presented by Dr. Robert Dale
– Cognitive Computing, presented by Sue Feldman, Synthexis
– Metrics and Measurement, presented by research leader Steve Rappaport
– Machine Learning for Natural Language Understanding (pending)
The program is organized by industry analyst and consultant Seth Grimes, president of Alta Plana Corporation.’Visit https://sentimentsymposium.com/agenda.html for the full program.’
