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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.

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 →

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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 →

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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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How I Estimate (Social/Sentiment/Text Analytics) Market Size

Posted on December 21, 2011

Business loves market-size estimates. They quantify opportunity, measured as the gap between an existing and an addressable market, with growth rates providing a reality check. They help an individual solution provider understand how it stacks up against the competition, and they guide investors … Continue reading →

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Entry-level Choices for Concept/Topic Extraction and Sentiment

Posted on December 14, 2011

I received an inquiry – “I’m doing some industry research, and I’d like to run some documents through a text analytics program to understand sentiment and key concepts/topics present in the documents. Probably a ‘few hundred’ documents over all. “Can … Continue reading →

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My New Approach to Blogging

Posted on December 13, 2011

It has been almost a year since UBM TechWeb folded Intelligent Enterprise into InformationWeek, a larger-circulation, better-resourced publication.  Yet I’ve written only four 2011 articles for IWK, the last published May 12.  IWK’s sense of itself — audience, topics, voice … Continue reading →

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