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Posts about Meaningcloud’s events.

Language Technology vs. Disinformation

Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020

Following the 2016 US presidential election, many have expressed concern about the effects of false stories (“fake news”), circulated largely through social media. Research from Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has found a long and steady decline in trust in traditional media. (See Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020). This declining trust coincides with the uprise of social media as a main source of information. In 2020, social media was a source of news for 48 percent of the public, up from 27 percent in 2013, according to the Reuters Institute.

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MeaningCloud participates in T3chFest 2019

This year MeaningCloud participates in T3chFest, the technology fair in University Carlos III de Madrid.

T3chFest was born as a show of the research works made in the Department of Informatics. Today, the event has become a reference in Spain’s technology scene. In the last edition 1600 people attended to more than 80 talks.

This year we have submitted a call titled “NLP for Small Data“, where we review the state of the art in the Natural Language Processing. We will also discuss the advances in Deep Learning and the usage of Linguistic Models.

The talk will be presented by two members of our Linguistics team: Concepción Polo, Director of Linguistics, and María José García, computational linguist. They are actively involved in every linguistic model in all our products, from the initial model sketch to its final fine tuning.

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TASS 2018: Fostering Research on Semantic Analysis in Spanish

MeaningCloud and University of Jaen have been the organizers of TASS, the Workshop on Semantic Analysis in Spanish language at SEPLN (International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing), again in 2018.

TASS logo

During the years, the research has extended to other tasks related to the processing of the semantics of texts that attempt to further improve natural language understanding systems. Apart from sentiment analysis, other tasks attracting the interest of the research community are stance classification, negation handling, rumor identification, fake news identification, open information extraction, argumentation mining, classification of semantic relations, and question answering of non-factoid questions, to name a few.

TASS 2018 was the 7th event of the series and was held in conjunction with the 34rd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, in Seville (Spain), on September 18th, 2018. Four research tasks were proposed. MeaningCloud sponsored this edition with prizes for the best systems in each of the tasks. A comprehensive description paper is (to be) published in Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural journal, vol 62: TASS 2018: The Strength of Deep Learning in Language Understanding Tasks.

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MeaningCloud sponsors the award for Author Profiling Research at PAN also in 2018

Author Profiling and Text Forensics Research

CLEF Conference 2018Since 2009 the PAN Lab organizes shared tasks on digital text forensics in general, and in author profiling in particular. Pan Lab is part of CLEF, the European Conference and Evaluation Forum around Information Retrieval. CLEF consists of an independent peer-reviewed conference on a broad range of issues in the field of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation, and a set of labs and workshops designed to test different aspects of mono and cross-language information retrieval systems. CLEF 2018 will be hosted by the University of Avignon, France, 10-14 September 2018.

MeaningCloud has been sponsoring the award to the best performing team in the author profiling task at CLEF since 2015.

Author profiling is a task that given a document has the aim to infer what are the traits of its author.
In 2017 the task focused on gender and language variety identification in Twitter addressing four languages and several of their varieties: English (Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, United States), Spanish (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Venezuela), Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), and Arabic (Egypt, Gulf, Levantine, Maghrebi).

Paolo Rosso delivers the 2017 PAN Author Profiling Price to the team of University of Groningen

Paolo Rosso delivers the 2017 PAN Price to the team of University of Groningen

Twenty-two were the participating teams from all over the world in 2017 and the best results were obtained by Angelo Basile, Gareth Dwyer, Maria Medvedeva, Josine Rawee, Hessel Haagsma, and Malvina Nissim, from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

This year the task will go multimodal and not only textual information in tweets will be taken into account but also images of URLs will be used as information sources in order to infer gender demographics. Three will be the languages that will be addressed: English, Spanish and Arabic [http://pan.webis.de/clef18/pan18-web/author-profiling.html].

Paolo Rosso
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Co-organizer of the author profiling task at PAN

References

Rangel F., Rosso P., Potthast M., Stein B. (2017). Overview of the 5th Author Profiling Task at PAN 2017: Gender and Language Variety Identification in Twitter. In: Cappellato L., Ferro N., Goeuriot L, Mandl T. (Eds.) CLEF 2017 Labs and Workshops, Notebook Papers. CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, vol. 1866. [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1866/invited_paper_11.pdf]

Potthast M., Rangel F., Tschuggnall M., Stamatatos E., Rosso P., Stein B. (2017). Overview of PAN’17: Author Identification, Author Profiling, and Author Obfuscation. In: 8th Int. Conf. of CLEF on Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization, CLEF 2017,
Springer-Verlag, LNCS(10456), pp. 275–290 [http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/webis/publications/papers/stein_2017k.pdf]

MeaningCloud participates in the first Global Legal Hackathon

global legal hackaton

The first phase of the first Global Legal Hackathon (GLH) was held February 23-25, 2018. David Fisher, organizer of the event and founder of the technological and legal company Integra Ledger, estimates that the GLH will have a great impact. He hasn’t spoken too soon; global participation in the GLH nearly matched that of an earlier event organized by NASA, and it has been considered the largest hackathon organized to date. For 54 hours, more than 40 cities across six continents participated simultaneously. The teams were made up of engineers, jurists, lawyers, and people in business who all worked toward a common goal: to lay the foundations for legal projects that can improve legal work or access to legal information through an app, program, or software. Continue reading →

MeaningCloud’s Artificial Intelligence at EyeforPharma

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Text-based Artificial Intelligence for the Pharma Industry

At MeaningCloud, we are proud to sponsor the Eye for Pharma Conference. Data, Evidence and Access Summit 2017. November 13-14th, 2017 – Philadelphia, US. MeaningCloud’s value proposition for the conference can be summarized as Text-Based Information with Artificial Intelligence.

Eye for Pharma is about demonstrating and communicating value, no matter which department you’re in. Whether it’s exploring innovative uses of real-world evidence (RWE) or creating new outcomes-based pricing models, only by embracing the power of data can you fully unlock the value of your drugs. It is a great opportunity for learning and networking.

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MeaningCloud Sponsors Welcome to Spain for Fulbright Scholars

The Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by Senator J. William Fulbright and is sponsored by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). More than 370,000 “Fulbrighters” have participated in the Program since its inception more than seventy years ago. The Fulbright Program awards approximately 8,000 grants annually. Currently, the Fulbright Program operates in over 160 countries worldwide.

The Bilateral Fulbright Program with Spain

Fulbright Spain Association

The Fulbright Program offers grants to Spain for U.S. citizens. U.S. students and young professionals may apply for a grant to pursue independent research in Spain, while U.S. scholars may teach or research in Spain through Fulbright. In addition, U.S. scholars are eligible to apply for the Fulbright Specialist Program and U.S. students are eligible to apply for the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program. This year, 140 young and enthusiast U.S. citizens are coming to Spain under the Fulbright Program.

MeaningCloud Sponsors Welcome to Spain for Fulbright Scholars

At MeaningCloud, we recognize the immense value of the Fulbright initiative, so much contributing to the mutual understanding of people and promotion of international good will through the exchange of students in the fields of education, culture, and science. As in previous years, MeaningCloud is proud to co-sponsor the “Welcome to Spain” event to the 2017 Fulbright grantees. This event will be held at the School of Industrial Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, on September 13th, 2017.

Follow the Fulbright Spain group on Facebook to know about all the activities organized by the Spanish Fulbright Association.

MeaningCloud Sponsors PharmaForce 2017

PharmaForce 2017

MeaningCloud sponsors PharmaForce 2017

At MeaningCloud, we are proud to sponsor the PharmaForce 2017 Conference. PharmaForce is an interactive conference for marketing and sales leaders from pharmaceutical companies to be held on September 18-20, 2017, in Austin, TX.

PharmaForce is the event for Pharma commercial innovators.

Who should attend:

  • Marketing:
    Consumer/HCP/Payer Marketing, Managed Markets, Marketing, Social Media Strategist, Commercial Marketing, Multichannel Marketing, Digital Marketing/Digital Strategy
  • Sales:
    Field Force/Sales Force Effectiveness, Sales Training & Development, Commercial/Sales Operations, Field/Regional/Account Manager, Market Access
  • Brand & Commercial Strategy:
    Commercial Innovation, Brand Management/Strategy, Brand Marketing, Disease, Drug, and Therapy Area Heads

Now in its 11th year, PharmaForce is the only life sciences event that addresses both marketing and sales strategies to achieve commercial success.

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MeaningCloud Sponsors the Real World Evidence Forum 2017

Real World Evidence Forum

Real-World Evidence Forum

Real-World Evidence Forum Philadelphia, July 17-18

At MeaningCloud, we are proud to sponsor the Real World Evidence Forum. The RWE Forum, taking place on July 17-18, 2017 in Philadelphia, will bring together clinical health professionals to address:

  • How to operationalize the process of collecting real-world data.
  • How to utilize real-world evidence to demonstrate both the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of drugs.

Attendees will gain a better understanding of how electronic data sources are changing the way real-world data is being collected. This conference will offer attendees insight into how real-world evidence will help decrease costs, define innovative outcomes and minimize the number of patients exposed to potentially harmful medications.

Text Analytics and Real World Evidence

MeaningCloud, as a Text Analytics provider, has evolved a highly specialized offering for the Health and Pharma industries. We count among our clients some the largest companies in the Pharmaceutical industry.

Join us in Philadelphia. If you are interested in attending the Real World Evidence Forum next July 17-18, just drop us a line to info@meaningcloud.com. We have a surprise for you!

Stay tuned to access our presentation at the conference, that we will publish on this blog. In the meanwhile, if you are curious about how our technology works in the health area, just take a look at our Text Analytics Health Demo.

Looking forward to seeing you at the Real-World Evidence Forum!

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Join MeaningCloud at the 2016 Sentiment Analysis Symposium

Banner Sentiment Analysis SymposiumMeaningCloud is excited to be sponsoring the 2016 Sentiment Analysis Symposium, taking place July 12 in New York. Join us there!

The Symposium is the first and best conference to address the business value of sentiment, opinion, and emotion in social, online, and enterprise data. The audience is comprised of business analysts, developers, data scientists, and researchers, applying text, sentiment, and social analytics to a host of business challenges. And the speakers? They represent users like Johnson & Johnson, the Mayo Clinic, and VML, analysts like Forrester Research, and innovative start-ups and established technology players.

We will present MeaningCloud’s text and sentiment analysis technology during the symposium program, and you can meet us for a personalized demo in the SAS16 exhibit area or for an informal chat during symposium networking breaks.

If you’re up for a deep technical introduction, start your Symposium experience with an optional half-day tutorial — Computing Sentiment, Emotion, and Personality — taught July 11.

There’s good reason the Symposium has been going strong since 2010. Come network and learn with some of the best sentiment and social data innovators around. Use the registration code MEANING to save 20% on your ticket — register online here — and we’ll see you in New York!