Thursday, June 12, 2008

4th Annual Text Analytics Summit in Boston (June 16-17 2008)

An extremely interesting 2-day menu of Text Analytics activities in Boston coming up this Sunday. It includes (the highlights below are my selection from the online menu):

1. Pre-conference workshops (Text Analytics for dummies and MarketPlace Overview),

2. Keynote by Microsoft CompLing Research Labs on sentiment detection,

3. An Industry Panel including a Sr. Product Manager from Business_Objects/SAP (previously Inxight), the CTOs of Attensity and Clarabridge and the VP of SPSS,

4. Text mining and evaluation in blogs,

5. A presentation in Speech Analytics by the SVP of CallMiner, Inc. and

6. A presentation in Visual Analytics in Pharma data by the rep of Merck KGaA.