[Asis-l] Reminder: Sentiment Analysis Symposium, May 7-8 in New York

[Seth Grimes]

A reminder --

The Sentiment Analysis Symposium (http://sentimentsymposium.com/) takes 
place next week, May 7-8 2013, in New York. This is a business-focused 
conference with strong academic/research, as well as practitioner, 
participation. The focus is technologies that mine emotions, opinions, and 
attitudes from social, online, and enterprise sources, for analysis in 
conjuction with other social, transactional, personal, and 
business-operations data.

The Wednesday, May 8 symposium will be preceded by two optional, half-day 
sessions on Tuesday, May 7: A Research & Innovation session and a 
Practical Sentiment Analysis tutorial, the latter taught by Prof. Ronen 
Feldman of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

We offer a 50% discount to academic & government attendees (registration 
code GOVACAD) and have a special rate for full-time students, $100 for the 
symposium and $50 for each of the optional sessions (contact me).

On the agenda for the May 8 main event --

- Visionaries Augie Ray (financial services), Gary Kazantsev (Bloomberg), 
and VS Subrahmanian (Univ of Maryland).

- Tech/research stars including Carol Haney (Toluna), Stuart Shulman 
(Vision Critical, ex-UMass), Catherine Havasi (MIT Media Lab and 
Luminoso), and Philip Resnik (Univ of Maryland).

- Research-business leaders including Stephen Rappaport (Advertising 
Research Foundation), David Rabjohns (MotiveQuest), Julie Wittes Schlack 
(Communispace), Joseph Hughes (Accenture), and Hal Bloom (Sage Software)

Business user presenters include Han Lai (PayPal), Amelia Burke-Garcia 
(Westat), and Lindsey Sanford (Bernard Hodes Group).

We have some really cool folks attending too, from CapitalOne, Consumer 
Reports, Dell, Evolve24, the Federal Reserve, JP Morgan, Thomson Reuters, 
and other organizations. We're thrilled to have as sponsors Accenture, 
Bloomberg, Lexalytics, Gnip, Converseon, Dow Jones, and NetBase. And we 
even have non-sponsoring technology companies attending including Oracle, 
SAS, and Verint, Angoss, Basis Technology, and Sysomos.

Aside from the technology focus, application focal areas include public 
relations, marketing, market research, customer service/support, financial 
markets, media, and healthcare.

Please do join us. Visit http://sentimentsymposium.com/ to register today.