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Posts about Meaningcloud’s events.

Language Technology Industry meets in Brussels, May 16-17, 2016

Language Technology Industry Summit

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LT-Innovate, the Language Technology Industry Association, organizes a new edition of its annual Summit. It is the yearly point of convergence between the Language Technology Industry, its clients, research partners and policy makers. According to its Memorandum of Association (London, 2012), LT-Innovate is a non-governmental organization consisting of all parties involved in the field of Language Technologies (LT) and services. Main goals are the promotion of common interests in the successful development, production, delivery and use of language technologies and services and the implementation of services that may help to promote the industry.

LTI Cloud

Besides traditional sections, as Solution Showcases, Technology Spotlights, and Project Results, Language Technology Industry Summit 2016 will serve as the official launch of one of the most important endeavours undertaken by the Association since its inception: the LTI Cloud.

LTI Cloud is the one-stop-shop platform for making available, discovering, assembling, testing and prototyping language technology components. If you are a potential provider of LT APIs (researcher, developer, startup…), and you want to get exposure, testing, or simply customers, consider using LTI Cloud, as it is a ready-to-use platform.

Still in a pilot phase until May 17th, you can be among the first adopters of LTI Cloud. And remember that it serves not only LT providers but also final users. Jochen Hummel, the leader of this initiative, will make the presentation at the Conference. By now, you can take a look at this preview.

Coming back to the Summit, I would like to stress a traditional track: “Customers challenge the Industry”. This year’s challenge comes from Elsevier: “Dynamic Knowledge Stores and Machine Translation”. It will be presented by Michelle Gregory and Pascal Coupet.

MeaningCloud User Profiling API

Being MeaningCloud one of the founding companies of LT-Innovate, we are proud to take an active role again in this year’s event. On Tuesday 17th of May, I will be presenting our recent work on “Automatic Extraction of Rich Customer Profiles from their Activity in Social Networks”. It is about our brand new MeaningCloud API for automatic profiling of Twitter users. User Profiling API allows extracting some important demographics according to different aspects for a given Twitter user: which topics the user talks about, personal and professional information, hobbies and interests, etc. This information extraction is based on a mixed rule-based and machine learning approaches.

Conference Discount Code

Come and join us at the LT-Innovate Summit. And, before registration, do not forget to ask for a special discount code through our helpdesk (support@meaningcloud.com).

Daedalus is now Sngular Meaning

[See the UPDATE section at the end of this post to know about the relationship between Sngular and MeaningCloud, as of June 1st, 2017.]

I am thrilled to announce that Daedalus, the company that I founded in 1998 in Spain, is now part of the Sngular group. This operation is part of a merger of five complementary IT companies to form a corporation based on talent and innovation, with the purpose of serving better our customers in times of accelerated changes.

As a consequence of this M&A operation, Daedalus has been renamed Sngular Meaning, raising series C funding from Sngular, its parent company, to accelerate its international development.

What does this deal mean for MeaningCloud?

Logo MeaningCloudMeaningCloud LLC is the branch of Sngular Meaning in the United States, in charge of development and marketing of our text analytics services. It is our strategic bid to consolidate as an international reference in the field of semantic technologies.

For MeaningCloud, this deal assures:

  • The financial resources for a faster expansion of our international business.
  • New marketing channels through cooperation with our Sngular sibling companies.
  • New opportunities to build specific solutions for vertical markets.

Some figures about MeaningCloud (that quickly become obsolete):

  • 5,000 registered users.
  • 1,000 active users in the last month.
  • 5 million API calls per day.

What is the structure of Sngular?

The companies that form the Sngular group are:

In total, we add up to a total of 300 people, with branches in the United States, Mexico and Spain. We define ourselves as a talent tech team. We will be visible under the domain sngular.team. Our CEO is Jose Luis Vallejo.

Regarding Sngular Meaning, besides the incorporation of Jose Luis Vallejo to the Board of Directors, there are no other changes at the management level. On my side, I will continue as President at Sngular Meaning and CEO at MeaningCloud. We can assure the continuity of our strategy around our trademarks MeaningCloud and Stilus.

When is the kick off?

On October 8th we will make a public presentation of the new Sngular group. This will be an event for employees and customers (by invitation only), but we plan other open events for later.

This is an exciting moment for us. We look at the future with confidence. I am sure that, as members of the Sngular family, we will continue enjoying the affection and support of all of you: customers, business partners and friends. Wish us luck and thank you for remaining at our side!

UPDATE as of June 1st, 2017

Almost two years later, anybody can see that the Sngular merger was a great success. What was founded as an umbrella corporation formed by five sister companies is now a strong IT company with multinational presence, where four of the original founding companies are fully merged. Besides this, other companies have been merged into Sngular through different mechanisms during the last months.

Regarding Sngular Meaning, we have jointly decided to integrate the service-oriented Data Science and Big Data activities in Sngular, while retaining all the activities and assets in the area of Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing in general. The Spain-based company Sngular Meaning (formerly Daedalus) has been renamed MeaningCloud Europe SL, owning 100% of the US-based company MeaningCloud LLC. Sngular maintains a non-controlling interest in our renewed and renamed company.

Long live Sngular! Long live MeaningCloud!

Jose C. Gonzalez

See you at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium 2015 in New York

Next July 15-16, New York will host a new edition of the Sentiment Analysis Symposium. This event is your opportunity to keep up with technologies and solutions that help you discover business value in opinions, emotions, and attitudes in social media, news, and enterprise feedback, to further your business goals.

This year, the program has two tracks: a Presentation Track featuring a mix of business and technical presentations and panels and a Workshop Track with longer-form content. See the agenda here.

Sentiment Analysis Symposium 2015
At MeaningCloud,  over the past year we’ve seen an explosion of interest in sentiment analysis from very diverse industries and the Sentiment Analysis Symposium is the premier event to learn about the latest developments in this and related areas, such as social listening and voice of customer analytics. This is the reason why we are sponsoring the Symposium again in 2015.

We’re thrilled to present and collaborate with other leaders in the industry at this year’s event in New York. Our main presentation will be titled: “From Strangers to Acquaintances: Multidimensional Customer Profiling” and will describe how businesses aim to integrate multichannel interactions (social conversations, web behavior, contact center activity) and other data for profiling and segmenting their users in real time. In this context, a winning approach is to combine dimensions like demographics, lifestyle, brand affinity, or intent to better understand your audience and to generate business opportunities.

For more information and registering, please visit the Symposium’s website. And if you want to save 20% in your registration, contact us at news@meaningcloud.com.

Meet us in New York City, at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, and follow @SentimentSymp.

The Analysis of Customer Experience, Touchstone in the Evolution of the Market of Language Technologies

The LT-Innovate 2014 Conference has just been held in Brussels. LT-Innovate is a forum and association of European companies in the sector of language technologies. To get an idea of the meaning and the importance of this market, suffice it to say that in Europe some 450 companies (mainly innovative SMEs) are part of it, and are responsible for 0.12% of European GDP. Daedalus is one of the fifteen European companies (and the only one from Spain) formally members of LT-Innovate Ltd. since its formation as an association, with headquarters in the United Kingdom, in 2012.

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LT-Innovate Innovation Manifesto 2014

In this 2014 edition, the document “LT-Innovate Innovation Manifesto:” Unleashing the Promise of the Language Technology Industry for a Language-Neutral Digital Single Market” has been published. I had the honor of being part of the round table which opened the conference. The main subject of my speech was the qualitative change experienced in recent times by the role of our technologies in the markets in which we operate. For years we have been incorporating our systems to solve in very limited areas the specific problems of our more or less visionary or innovative customers. This situation has already changed completely: language technologies now play a central role in a growing number of businesses.

Language Technologies in the Media Sector

In a recent post, I referred to this same issue with regard to the media sector. If before we would incorporate a solution to automate the annotation of file contents, now we deploy solutions that affect most aspects of the publishing business: we tag semantically pieces of news to improve the search experience on any channel (web, mobile, tablets), to recommend related content or additional one according to the interest profile of a specific reader, to facilitate findability and indexing by search engines (SEO, Search Engine Optimization), to place advertising related to the news context or the reader’s intention, to help monetize content in new forms, etc.

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Analyzing the Voice of the Customer channels at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium

Sentiment Analysis Symposium 2014

A few days ago we did a presentation at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium of New York. In our talk, we explained how to use text analysis technologies to listen to the different Voice of the Customer channels and get customer insights.

Textalytics at Sentiment Analysis Symposium 2014

For companies is vital to understand the opinions that their actual and potential customers express in new channels that are much more spontaneous and less structured than the traditional surveys (e.g. answers in questionnaires, interactions with contact centers, conversations in social media). The reach, the immediacy and the “emotional“aspect of these channels make them an impressive source of raw materials for obtaining valuable insights.

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Textalytics sponsors the Sentiment Analysis Symposium

Next March 5-6, New York will host a new edition of the Sentiment Analysis Symposium. This is the seventh event of a series organized by industry expert Seth Grimes since year 2010 in San Francisco and NYC.

This is a unique conference in several aspects. First, it is designed specifically to serve the community of professionals interested in Human Analytics and its business application. Second, its audience is integrated by a mix of experts, strategists, practitioners, researchers, and solution providers, which makes a perfect breeding ground for discussion and exchange of points of view. Third, it is designed by just one person (not by a committee), a guarantee of consistency. Being an expert in the consultancy business, Seth Grimes achieves an excellent balance of presentations covering from technology to business application. I attended the New York 2012 edition, where I gave an enlightening talk, and I can tell that the experience was really enriching.

Sentiment Analysis Symposium 2014

Do not be misled by the title: do not interpret “Sentiment Analysis” in a narrow sense. The conference is about discovering business value in opinions, emotions, and attitudes in social media, news, and enterprise feedback. Moreover, the scope is not limited to text sources: speech and image are terms of the equation too.

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