I wish I could say Lexalytics has analyzed the entirety of the world’s social-media and Web conversations, and deemed it all worthless. Alas.

“That’s not our role,” says Jeff Catlin, the company’s CEO.

Nevertheless it’s a good time to check in withLexalytics, the Boston- and Amherst, MA-based text analysis company whose technology seeks to understand the meaning and sentiment of conversations on the Web.

In recent years, text and sentiment analysis has graduated from a niche technology used for social-media monitoring and customer relationship management, to a more mainstream feature used by a lot of big companies for business intelligence and other applications.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Read full article...