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“Semantics, syntax, and context.” You need all three to turn text into possible business decisions, according to Seth Redmore, CMO at Lexalytics, Inc.

Reports on Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner’s recent debut on the cover of Vanity Fair have cited an assortment of reactions from the Twittersphere.

Lexalytics, a provider of cloud and on-prem text and sentiment analytics solutions, updated its Salience sentiment analytics platform.

In this special guest feature, Jeff Catlin of Lexalytics lays out the case for text analytics and its importance to the rising interest in big data.

Lexalytics®, a leader in cloud and on-prem text and sentiment analytics solutions, announces the update of its Salience® sentiment analytics platform with quicker, more accurate processing, easier configuration of query topics in accented languages such as Portuguese and Spanish, and the ability to contextualize sentiment statements using Boolean search logic.

Lexalytics, a provider of text and sentiment analytics, today launched a wizard and graphical user interface (GUI) for its Semantria software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform and Excel plugin. The new wizard, called SWIZ, is part of the Semantria Online Configurator, SWEB 1.3.

Customer-strategy maven Paul Greenberg made a thought-provoking remark to me back in 2013. Paul was puzzled — Why haven’t there been any billion-dollar text analytics startups?

Tesla Motors experienced its second highest one-minute trading volume of all time earlier this month after computers misinterpreted the company’s April Fools’ Day joke as a serious press release.

You’ll often hear organisations claim to be “at the beating heart” of a country’s digital industry. In the case of a new tool launched by IAB South Africa, that’s a little more literal than you might expect.

Most tools in the booming field of analytics rely on quantitative data. Analytics tends to work best with large numbers of numerical data points; smaller data sets and those where the data isn’t easily quantified can present problems.

The Internet Advertising Bureau of South Africa’s mission is to promote digital growth and in doing so, has to tap in to what South African internet users are talking about. Once brands know that, they can react and start talking to consumers

Catherine Havasi wants to help businesses understand what people are saying on Twitter, Facebook, and other online feeds and forums—right now. Havasi is the co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence startup Luminoso

Lexalytics is going beyond predicting consumers’ feelings, or sentiment analysis, to anticipating their actions with what they call “intention analysis.” Information Week takes a look at the feature

Luminoso, a sentiment analysis startup with DNA from MIT’s Media Lab, says its new product can take consumer feedback from Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and potentially other feeds, and boil it into one stream to provide a near real-time look at how people feel (or at least talk) about a given topic.

Big Data has been a hot topic in the business world in recent years. Even if consumers aren’t quite sure how it all works, they know its purpose: Companies are collecting and using digital data — such as Web search histories, past purchases and geolocation — to make personalized recommendations and market to customers in the most targeted, effective way possible.

L’efficacité avec laquelle les terroristes recrutent sur l’internet a créé une commotion mondiale. Plus que jamais, les services secrets sont pressés de les traquer sur ce terrain. Des percées technologiques renversantes, qu’on pensait réservées aux oeuvres de science-fiction, pourraient bientôt les y aider. Elles n’en inquiètent pas moins les défenseurs de la vie privée.

2014 saw 39 companies in social media analysis change hands, a big jump from the 18 in 2013. Continuing an ongoing trend, most of the year’s deals involved strategic technology acquisitions or specialist firms joining bigger companies

Брюки и пиджак, смокинг с галстуком‑­бабочкой или джинсы ­­и поло? Олег Рогинский, 26‑летний владелец стартапа Semantria, не может подобрать подходящий костюм. Он собирается на ужин со своим бывшим боссом Джеффом Катлином, генеральным директором

In my previous post, I described the future of enterprise search. In this post, I will describe few new search applications that could be interesting.

В недавно опубликованном исследовании управляющий партнер AVentures Capital Евгений Сысоев вместе с коллегами проанализировал 250 сделок, в которые за последние три года было вовлечено свыше 1000 украинских стартапов.

As has been our tradition these last few years, The Semantic Web Blog steps back for experts in it and in related spaces to give us their opinion of the highlights of 2014. Here is Part 1:

One of the great things about following big data is that every so often, when you want to touch on its “creepy factor,” you get to link to the New York Times story of how Target figured out a teen-age girl was pregnant before her father did (the link is to the lengthy original; this Forbes’ columnist summarizes it nicely).