2016 Conferences

The next Sentiment Analysis Symposium takes place in New York, July 12, 2016. And join us at LT-Accelerate in Brussels, 21-22 November, 2016.

SAS14 Presentation Videos and Slide Decks

The program for the March 5, 2014 "human analytics" workshops and the March 6, 2014 conference is outlined in the agenda that follows. Attend either or both. And whichever day(s) you attend, join us for the Wednesday evening, March 5 networking reception, starting at 5:30 pm.

March 5 Workshops	Business Track	Technical Track
Morning Session
9:00 am-12:30 pm	Insider's Guide to Social Media Measurement Stephen D. Rappaport, Stephen D. Rappaport Consulting LLC with Vincent Santino, Kaplan Test Prep; Peter Fontana, We Are Social; and Maribel Lara, M80	Practical Sentiment Analysis tutorial Jason Baldridge, University of Texas presentation
Afternoon Session
1:30 pm-5:00 pm	The Road to Customer Intelligence: Data, Analytics, Insight Steve Ramirez, Beyond the Arc
1:30 pm-5:00 pm	Technology & Innovation Session 1 Using Apache Hive for Sentiment Analysis Rajat Jain, Qubole presentation Sequence Package Analysis and Sentimetrics Amy Neustein, Linguistic Technology Systems presentation Evaluating Sentiment Analysis Evaluation Gerald Penn, University of Toronto presentation Compositional Sentiment Analysis Stephen Pulman, Oxford University presentation Session 2 Emotions are mixed: identifying and visualizing the emotions of topics in public discourse Jennifer Sikos, Decisive Analytics Corporation presentation Sentiment Analysis by Ensemble Post-Processing Mark Gingrich, SDL presentation Contextual Sensing and Sentiment Classification Adrienne Andrew, ARO, Inc. presentation Analyzing user behavior to add context to sentiments: Community structure mining for user role identification Robert Nolker, Analyze presentation Beyond Sentiment: Context-aware emotion modeling for customer insights Moritz Sudhof, Kanjoya presentation

March 6 Conference
Morning Session
8:30 am-8:40 am	Chair's Welcome: The Sentiment Spectrum Seth Grimes, Alta Plana Corporation	V I S I O N & A P P L I C A T I O N
8:40 am-9:15 am	Measure and Predict: Lessons in Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty Bob Hayes, TCElab presentation
9:15 am-9:45 am	Adventures in Emotion Recognition Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Lab presentation
9:45 am-10:10 am	Mapping Human Motivations to Move Product David Rabjohns, MotiveQuest presentation
10:10 am-10:35 am	Break
10:35 am-11:15 am	Visionaries Panel Stephen D. Rappaport, Stephen D. Rappaport Consulting LLC, moderator Jasme Bantens, consultant, ex-Digitas Bradley Honan, KRC Research Augie Ray, Amex
11:15 am-11:40 am	Social Intelligence at the Crossroads Chris Boudreaux, Accenture
11:40 am-11:50 am	Strategies for Successful Sentiment Analysis of Realtime Social Data Scott Hendrickson, Gnip presentation
11:50 am-12:15 pm	Lightning Talks 5-minute presentations/demos of human analytics technologies, solutions, and services Voice of the Customer in the Financial Services Industry Antonio Matarranz, Daedalus presentation Ent-it-UP: A Live Service for Sentiment Analysis on Media Contents Federico Neri, SyNTHEMA presentation Do It Yourself Analytics Nick Poore, IBM Sharing Emotions in Social Networks: Data Mining Tools for Sentiment Analysis of Audiences Vittorio Di Tomaso, CELI presentation
12:15 pm-12:30 pm	Accuracy and Opportunity Seth Redmore, Lexalytics presentation
Lunch & Networking
12:30 pm-1:30 pm	Lunch & Networking
Afternoon Session
1:30 pm-2:05 pm	Engagement: The Unspoken Connection Marie Wallace, IBM Corporation presentation	E X P E R T I S E
2:05 pm-2:25 pm	Forecasting the Spread of Sentiments and Emotion in Social Media VS Subrahmanian, Univ of Maryland and SentiMetrix
2:25 pm-2:45 pm	Extracting Trading Signals from Investor Sentiment Sarah Biller, Capital Market Exchange presentation
2:45 pm-3:05 pm	Sentiment Analysis for Comment Moderation Maggie Xiong, The Huffington Post presentation
3:05 pm-3:15 pm	Deriving Social ROI Through Enhanced Text Analytics in Real Time Shree Dandekar, Dell Software presentation
3:15 pm-3:35 pm	Break
3:35 pm-4:10 pm	Innovation Panel Steve Ramirez, Beyond the Arc, moderator Catherine Havasi, Luminoso John Hoskins, Amazon Amit Phansalkar, MassMutual Financial Group	I N N O V A T I O N
4:10 pm-4:30 pm	Bleeding Edge NLP: Extract & Analyze Events, Relationships, Emotion, Intent, Identity, and Lots of Other Good Stuff Stephen Pulman, University of Oxford presentation
4:30 pm-4:50 pm	"Let's Get Emotional": Emotions in Speech Dan Emodi, BeyondVerbal presentation
4:50 pm-5:10 pm	Automatic Facial Expression Recognition for Emotion-Aware Computing Jacob Whitehill, Emotient
5:10 pm-5:30 pm	A New Approach to Real Time Intent and Sentiment Analysis Aloke Guha, Cruxly & Hitachi Data Systems, and Kapil Tundwal, Cruxly presentation
5:30 pm	Conference Close: A Look Ahead