Text Analytics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Here’s something I’ve been meaning to share for a while: the slides for a talk entitled “Text Analytics: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, co-authored with colleagues Vladimir Zelevinsky and Michael Ferretti. In this we outline some of the key challenges in text analytics, describe some of Endeca’s current research in this area, examine the current state [...]

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Announcing the London Text Analytics Group

OK, so after a period in stealth mode we’re now finally launching the London Text Analytics group. Well, I say “launching”, but it’s really just half a dozen of us meeting at Fizzback‘s offices for a talk and maybe a beer afterwards. It’s been a while in the making (mainly due to summer vacations & [...]

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GATE Summer School: highlights and reflections

Last week I attended the First GATE Summer School (“FIG’09″), at Sheffield University, from July 27 – 31. For those unfamilar with GATE, it is generally considered to be the premier open source platform for text analytics, and described by some as the “VW Beetle of NLP” (i.e. “it will overtake everyone – eventually”). If [...]

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