Agenda for 2011 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, April 12, New York

The symposium is a unique event that bridges technology and business in one of the most exciting applications to emerge in recent years: software that discovers business value in opinions and attitudes in social media, news, and enterprise feedback. Early-bird registration thru March 1.

From: Seth Grimes
SAS 2011

The agenda for the 2011 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, April 12 in New York, is out. The symposium is a unique event that bridges technology and business in one of the most exciting applications to emerge in recent years: software that discovers business value in opinions and attitudes in social media, news, and enterprise feedback. Talks include:

Ronen Feldman -- Sentiment Analysis Past, Present & Future, and an Application in Trading Strategies
Catherine Baudin, eBay Research Labs -- Mining Community Voices: Topics, Trends, Emotion and Opinions in eBay Community Data
Michael House and David Geddes of Maritz Research -- Understanding the Voice of the Customer in Mobile Devices: Integrating Survey and Social Media Research
Katie Delahaye Paine -- Beyond Sentiment: How to Really Get Value out of an Automated System
Armando Gonzalez of RavenPack -- Computers That Trade Off The News - Real Applications
Amit Moran of Aol -- Movie Sentiment Ranking Using Twitter Data
Josh Merchant, Lymbix -- The Right Formula for Sentiment Success: Emotion, Clarity, and Intensity

The symposium starts with Visionaries Panel featuring:

Amit Seth, EVP, Global Media Products, The Nielsen Company
Jeff Catlin, CEO, Lexalytics
Katie Delahaye Paine, CEO, KDPaine & Partners
Karla Wachter, SVP, Waggener Edstrom

We'll again this year have a series of 5-minute lightning talks covering new & innovative technologies.

New this year, the symposium will be preceded on April 11 by an optional half-day tutorial, Practical Sentiment Analysis, taught by staff from eBay Research Labs.

Early-bird registration ($200 discount) runs through March 1. Government and full-time academics get 50% off with the registration code GOVACAD.

I hope you can make it! Please do send any questions my way.

Seth Grimes, grimes at altaplana.com