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Our Sentiment about Text Analytics and Social Media

Submitted by Seth Redmore on Tue, 2010-09-28 17:46

Nick Halstead has launched a new service called Datasift.

Submitted by Seth Redmore on Tue, 2010-09-21 16:32

Salience is roughly split into two parts: the software itself, and the supporting data directories that have dictionaries, models, etc. This post discusses work specific to the data directory itself.

Submitted by Seth Redmore on Wed, 2010-08-11 16:22

In an earlier post, Jeff Catlin described analysis that we did around Bally's vs. Bellagio using publicly available customer reviews. We did this analysis using something called "categories", which is basically a fancy name for search strings.

Submitted by Seth Redmore on Tue, 2010-08-10 13:49

For the past year, we've experimented with using a web service to provide low-cost text analytics services, and we've learned a lot doing this.

Submitted by Seth Redmore on Mon, 2010-06-28 17:57

One of the two major new features in Salience 4.3 (releasing around June 30th) is "opinion mining". Opinion mining expands our core technology to handle indirect quotes.

Submitted by Seth Redmore on Wed, 2010-03-24 04:00

We now have code examples for using Lexascope with all of the languages below.

Submitted by Seth Redmore on Fri, 2010-02-12 05:00
Continuing the analysis of tech related sites, I decided to check to see if Apple really was that important across another consumer-focused tech site.
Submitted by Seth Redmore on Thu, 2010-02-11 05:00
We get 2 papers here at my house, courtesy of my news-hound wife: the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Submitted by Seth Redmore on Tue, 2010-02-09 05:00

The Super Bowl brings inevitable re-running and armchair quarterbacking at all the advertising agencies about how they could have done better. There's statistics and measurements galore, from Nielsen to USAToday about popularity and viewing. I was curious about what people were saying about the ads, so, I pointed Lexascope at the blogosphere and news feeds, and below is what it told me.