The Webinar Abstract:
This talk will describe sentiment analysis and give an overview of different approaches to building automated systems for this task, focusing on recent `compositional' approaches which try to use linguistic structure to guide the analysis for greater accuracy and finer granularity. The presenter will also discuss efforts to use sentiment analysis to predict some election and sporting outcomes, as well as various financial indicators like equity prices or the US non-farm payroll.
Speaker Profile:
Stephen Pulman is Professor of Computational Linguistics at the Department of Computer Science, Oxford University. He is a Professorial Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has also held visiting professorships at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, University of Stuttgart; and at Copenhagen Business School. He is a co-founder of TheySay Ltd. Previous positions include Professor of General Linguistics at Oxford University, Assistant Professor (Reader) at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and Director of SRI International's Cambridge Computer Science Research Center.
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