Sentiment Analysis, Enterprise Content, and Social Media, Year 2010

Sentiment analysis is one of my favorite topics: one of the most challenging and one of the most interesting uses of text technologies. News and social media, e-mail, surveys -- the gamut of text sources -- are full of subjective information: opinion, attitudes, emotion, and mood, with a wide variety of current and possible business uses. Application areas include customer satisfaction and support, marketing, financial markets, media and publishing, and politics and policy: essentially any computing application sourced from human communications.

Sentiment analysis represents a huge opportunity and it presents technical and solution challenges. That's why I've created a new conference, the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, slated for April 13 in New York.I'll cite material I created for the symposium Web site:

The symposium is designed to bring together experts, business executives, and IT practitioners -- experienced and new users and those evaluating solutions -- in a single, unique event. So do check out the event on-line. You have until February 3 to submit a speaking proposal by the way. Follow us on Twitter (@SentimentSymp) for updates, and do send me your questions and comments. I hope to see you there!Sentiment analysis is one of the most challenging and one of the most interesting uses of text technologies. Application areas include customer satisfaction and support, marketing, financial markets, media and publishing, and politics and policy. That's why I've created a new conference, the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, slated for April 13 in New York...