[Asis-l] Sentiment/emotion analytics: SAS14 conference march 5-6, 2014

[Seth Grimes]

The 2014 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, March 5-6 in New York, opens with 
two, half-day, technical-track workshops --

- Practical Sentiment Analysis: A tutorial taught by Jason Baldridge of 
the University of Texas (co-founder of the Apache OpenNLP project).

- Technology & Innovation: nine presentations by industry & academic 
researchers including Prof. Gerald Penn of the University of Toronto; 
Prof. Stephen Pulman, Oxford University; Andy Hickl of ARO Inc.; data 
scientist Mark Gingrich of SDL; and Dr. Robert Nolker, Analyze.

Visit http://sentimentsymposium.com/workshops.html for information of 
these workshops and the two business-track workshops, An Insider's Guide 
to Social Media Measurement and The Road to Customer Intelligence: Data, 
Analytics, Insight.

The March 6 conference opens with keynotes by industry analytics leader 
Bob E. Hayes, PhD, speaking on Voice of the Customer analytics, and by 
Prof. Rosalind Picard of the MIT Media Lab, on emotion recognition.

Other speakers include Accenture social-business expert Chris Boudreaux; 
Marie Wallace, who built IBM LanguageWare from small research project into 
an enterprise technology that underpins IBM products including IBM Watson; 
Prof VS Subrahmanian of the Univ of Maryland, speaking on sentiment & 
emotion propagation in social networks; John Hoskins from Amazon 
Mechanical Turk; Catherine Havasi, MIT Media Lab and start-up Luminoso; 
Prof. Stephen Pulman on Bleeding Edge NLP; and technical leaders from 
Emotient (facial-expression recognition) and BeyondVerbal (emotion in 
speech).

The March 6 conference -- agenda at 
http://sentimentsymposium.com/agenda.html -- includes representatives of 
other start-ups and established companies, speaking on technologies and 
business applications that discover value in emotion, intent, and 
connection, expressed in online, social, and enterprise data sources.

Register by January 25 to save up to $200. Full-time academic and 
government employees benefit from a 50% discount, and we have a special 
low rate for full-time students, $100 for the March 6 conference and $50 
for each workshop.

Please join us, for the March 5 workshops and the March 6 business 
conference. Register by January 25 for special early-registration rates, 
and do get in touch if you have questions or concerns.

 	Seth Grimes, Sentiment Analysis Symposium organizer



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Seth Grimes    grimes at altaplana.com   +1 301-270-0795    @sethgrimes
Alta Plana Corp, analytics strategy consulting, http://altaplana.com
http://SentimentAnalysisSymposium.com organizer, March 5-6, 2014, NY