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About Seth Grimes

Analytics industry observer -- analyst, consultant, writer -- helping companies find business value in enterprise data and online information. I consult via Alta Plana Corporation, work as an industry analyst, organize the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, and tweet at @sethgrimes.

Senti-meter Scans the Twitterverse for Movie Sentiment: Oscar or Runner Up?

Posted on February 21, 2012

The Academy Awards are next Sunday, their 84th iteration, social-media aware as never before. The Academy invites you to “Join the Conversation” via the #Oscars and #CelebrateTheMovies Twitter hashtags and gives over major Web-page real estate to Oscar Blogs and … Continue reading →

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Would Beethoven Have Given a Rat’s Ass about Business Analytics?

Posted on February 7, 2012

This posting started off as a comment to Gary Cokins’ SAS blog article, Could Beethoven have implemented business analytics? I decided to share my thoughts more widely however, really reflections about where we in the analytics world came from, and … Continue reading →

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Sentiment Analysis for Business, Finance & Social Media Showcased at May 8, New York Symposium

Posted on February 5, 2012

The speaker line-up next Sentiment Analysis Symposium is out. This symposium, the fourth, is slated for May 8, 2012 in New York. With speakers and panelists leading firms (including American Express, Fidelity Investments, Kraft Foods, the Red Cross, Thomson Reuters, … Continue reading →

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Decoding Content at Tech@State: Real Time Awareness

Posted on February 3, 2012

I’m moderating the panel this afternoon at the Tech@State conference, convened by the State Department, taking place at George Washington University. We — David Broniatowski (Synexxus), Ravi Patel (Yahoo! Research), Noah Smith (Carnegie Mellon Univ), and V.S. Subrahmanian (Univ of … Continue reading →

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Smart Content Re-viewed: Text Analytics and Semantic Content Enrichment

Posted on January 25, 2012

A recent blog article of mine (thankfully) gave rise to a number of off-topic comments concerning the meaning of semantic content enrichment. As Marie Wallace of IBM remarked, it’s great to see the term semantic content enrichment generating discussion although … Continue reading →

Posted in enterprise content management (ECM), natural language processing, open source, Semantic Web, semantics, text analytics | Tagged , | 7 Comments

Wisdom of the Sports Crowd: Good Odds with Sentibet Sentiment Analysis

Posted on January 23, 2012

Sentiment analysis is hot among financial-market traders, so why not for that other great betting domain, sports? Serafim Scandalos, an exec at Neurolingo, a Greek natural language processing (NLP) specialist, asked my reactions to Sentibet, currently in beta, which performs … Continue reading →

Posted in natural language processing, sentiment analysis, text analytics | 1 Comment

Stephen Arnold Blows a Gasket

Posted on January 12, 2012

Stephen Arnold, a provider of “news and information… about search and content processing,” has his hatchet out in Temis, Spammy PR, and Quite Silly Assertions. Stephen Arnold, “Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce,” … Continue reading →

Posted in marketing, semantics, text analytics | 12 Comments

What are the most powerful open-source sentiment-analysis tools?

Posted on January 8, 2012

I took a stab at a Quora question, What are the most powerful open-source sentiment-analysis tools?. Here’s my response: I know of no open-source (software) tools dedicated to sentiment analysis. Instead, a variety of open-source text-analytics tools — natural-language processing … Continue reading →

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Text Analytics in 2012

Posted on January 5, 2012

Will 2012 be The Year of Text Analytics? But wait. Wasn’t 2011 — weren’t 2010 and a few years before that — for those in the know? I think so, and I think 2012 will keep up the pace, seeing … Continue reading →

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From Sentiment Analysis to Enterprise Applications

Posted on January 2, 2012

If your perception of sentiment analysis was shaped by Twitter-sentiment toys, it’s time for a relook. These “toys” simplistically score tweets positive/negative/neutral based solely on keyword presence without regard for context. Semantically rooted sentiment technologies do better by getting at … Continue reading →

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