New Products Announced at SemTech 2011

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Leading industry companies will unveil and debut the newest products paving the way in semantic technology.

New York, New York (PRWEB) June 01, 2011
Mediabistro.com (a division of WebMediaBrands Inc., Nasdaq: WEBM) today announced new product releases that will be revealed at the Semantic Technology Conference (#SemTech), the world’s largest conference on the commercialization of semantic technologies, taking place June 5-9, 2011 at the San Francisco Hilton in Union Square.
SemTech is the preferred industry platform for exhibitors to announce product launches and breaking news. Attendees will have the rare opportunity to view products and services from top industry insiders including the following:
Revelytix will discuss several products, including: Spyder - a Relational to RDF conversion tool, Spinner - a SPARQL federation tool, and Rex - a RIF rules engine. Together these tools transform the information management capabilities of any enterprise.
Oracle will show how semantic tools within Oracle Database can effectively store, manage, inference and query RDF/OWL data for enterprise applications.
Ontotext will present the Web Mining Framework, (WMF) which involves a process of focused web crawling, screen scraping, text-mining, normalization, data merging, and de-duplication, resulting in normalized, structured data.
Inform Technologies will launch the Inform AdContext Service, which uses semantic metadata to fine-tune ad selection and make ads more topically relevant to the content.
Clark & Parsia will show how Pellet 3 (a leading OWL 2 reasoner) and Stardog (the new, world-class RDF database featuring fast SPARQL query performance) can be used to build fast and scalable semantic applications for the enterprise.
Cambridge Semantics will demonstrate how non-technical business users can combine Microsoft Excel and Anzo ETL to intuitively create mappings from an existing clinical database to the industry standard SDTM ontology and do live analysis.
Cray, Inc. will launch the Cray XMT System, designed specifically to run challenging big data graph analytics workloads that bring traditional systems to their knees.
Pragmatech will debut CTRL, a semantic engine that goes beyond words into concepts, which are then composed into topics that are subsequently analyzed to identify the ‘key’ topics that describe what a certain document is about.
ai-one will debut the Topic-Mapper SDK for text, enabling creation of intelligent applications that deliver better capabilities for semantic discovery, lightweight ontologies, knowledge collaboration, sentiment analysis, AI and data mining.
Talis will present Kasabi, a new web application that aims to support organisations in the publishing and monetization of data on the web.
Protégé will provide updated information on the latest enhancements to the tool and a description of WebProtégé, the web-based version that provides lightweight ontology editing directly in your ontology browser.
Knowledge Hives will introduce Civet, which uses NLP techniques to identify and analyze keywords in text; map them to concepts from vocabularies such as WordNet; and deliver an RDFa document with key words, phrases and names referencing Linked Data concepts.
Semantrix will debut its SM3 Social Multimedia Metadata Manager, which delivers enhanced content value through metadata extraction, annotation and cross-referencing using NLP, Search, Ontology and proprietary concept extraction.
MIT and Zepheira will show the latest work on Exhibit 3.0, fixing many shortcomings of the original, popular tool from the MIT Simile Project, making it far more scalable, modular, and feature rich.
To register for the conference, request a press pass, or to view the program schedule, visit http://semtech2011.semanticweb.com
2011 SemTech sponsors, leading vendors, and developers will demonstrate dozens of innovations at the SemTech Expo Hall.
They include Ontotext, Oracle, Revelytix, Elsevier, Fluid Operations, iQser, Ontoprise, OpenAmplify, OpenText, Orbis, TopQuadrant, XSB, Cognition, Morgan Kaufmann, Expert System, Tom Sawyer Software, Semantic Valley, Semantifi, Liaison Technologies, DERI, Franz, Semantic Arts, Semsphere, and more.
For sponsorship and exhibit information, contact:
Frank Fazio
Senior Director of Sales, Events
203-662-2887
eventsales(at)webmediabrands(dot)com
About WebMediaBrands Inc.
WebMediaBrands Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM) (http://www.webmediabrands.com), headquartered in New York, NY, is a leading Internet media company that provides content, education, and career services to media and creative professionals through a portfolio of vertical online properties, communities, and trade shows. The Company's online business includes: (i) mediabistro.com, a leading blog network providing content, education, community, and career resources (including the industry's leading online job board) about major media industry verticals including new media, social media, Facebook, TV news, sports news, advertising, public relations, publishing, design, mobile, and the Semantic Web; and (ii) AllCreativeWorld.com, a leading network of online properties providing content, education, community, career, and other resources for creative and design professionals. The Company's online business also includes community, membership and e-commerce offerings including a freelance listing service, a marketplace for designing and purchasing logos and premium membership services. The Company's trade show and educational offerings include conferences, online and in-person courses, and video subscription libraries on topics covered by the Company's online business.
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For information about WebMediaBrands contact:
Amanda Barrett
Director of Marketing
212-547-7879
press(at)webmediabrands(dot)com

Does Social Media Sets “New World Order” in building Revolutions throughout the Middle East?

BY consultramy

While the uprising started in Tunisia requesting from a long dictator to step down, Egypt is following suite of the recent Tunisian's Jasmine Revolution seeking reform, freedom, and respect by using social media to organize, communicate, and express their feelings not only to the world, but to say to their dictators "this is the end of your rule, and now is our time to make the change weather you like it or not".

The young catalysts of Twitter, Facebook, and social media are behind the driving force of the revolution not only in Tunisia and Egypt, but also in Jordan and Yemen where the role of social media has proven a new world order in digital social communications to bring down totalitarian regimes all over the Middle East. Nonstop-able young embryonic youth, the educated elite of the Arab world are speaking out seeking freedom. Yes, freedom is a high commodity especially in the Arab world where no real democracies exists; yet decades of totalitarian regimes that took the power of their people and turned them into modern slaves. Moreover, the blocked elite of Egypt are speaking out after thirty years of unprecedented selfish rule that stole their dignities by keeping them away from engaging in decision making, take responsibilities of their future are now fighting for their pride in setting the road map to gain freedom, the right to speak out, needless to say, gain respect by re-writing history that makes them proud citizens of their forced change to set a better example not only to Egypt, but to other dictators in the Middle East and the world. Now, social media set fear in dictatorships throughout the Arab world where Egypt's dictatorships shut down all social networks and communications to put more pressure on the young youth to stop their uprising, but that not only turned against the totalitarian regime, instead, it sparked more anger and gave the youth more reason not to give up that easily; yet embrace the fight for freedom to the end while Mr. Mubarak is witnessing his last moments of the 30 years old rule.

Going social in the digital world is building a new world order by driving change and bringing down dictators at least in the Arab world. The young blocked elite of Egypt are seeking change from regime reform, free elections, and the ability to choose their own leaders, to requesting their basic civil rights to be heard and respected; yet achieving it is even more challenging when chaos takes over in the streets and sets a whole new ball game. Social media is playing a vital role to make change possible and give these young rebels a tool that it was unprecedented before having the ability to bring down dictators and set a new world order in social digital communications.

Important facts about Egypt according to CIA FactBook's latest figures: 2010

Population: 80 Million

Median age: 24 years

GDP: Approximately $216.8 billion (2009)

Per capita income: $6,200 (GDP/year-PPP 2010)

Unemployment: 9.7% (est.)

Poverty: 40%

Strategic interests to the world:

• Israeli/Egyptian Peace Treaty signed In 1979.
• It is estimated that 10 percent of the global crude oil demand passes through the Suez Canal.
• The biggest population in the Middle East
• Egypt receives nearly $2-$3 billion in aid per year from the United States.
• Egypt holds ancient treasures and artifacts.
• The Pyramids are one of the top wonders of the world.
• A global destination for tourists making it one of the top tourist markets in the world.

Popular Hash Tags used for the "uprising in Egypt" on Twitter:

#liberation technology

#social freedom

#twitter revolution

#SM revolution

#Egypt

#jan25

#freedom

#Tahrir

#Cairo

#reform

#protest

#democracy

#support

#liberty

#civil liberty

#uprising

#Mona Altahawy

Latest Sentiment analysis of Egypt's uprising since it started six days ago on January 25, 2011

Link here: Egypt's Uprising Sentiment Analysis

About the Author:

Ramy Ghaly is a Marketing Strategist with more than ten years in international markets experience. He held professional and managerial positions in multiple global markets in various industries ranging from retail, wholesale, consumer goods, to technology product management with concentration in channel development. In addition, He holds a degree in International Marketing Management with a minor in International Relations and Middle Eastern studies from Daytona State College. He is interested in social media developments, next generation search technologies, semantic search engines, and text analytics; needless to say, strategies in geopolitics, Middle Eastern Studies, and Environmental factors that affect global business growth are general interests that keen to always monitor and encourage writing about.

What are the most challenging issues in Sentiment Analysis(opinion mining)?

Ramy Ghaly January 28, 2011

Hossein Said:

Opinion Mining/Sentiment Analysis is a somewhat recent subtask of Natural Language processing.Some compare it to text classification,some take a more deep stance towards it. What do you think about the most challenging issues in Sentiment Analysis(opinion mining)? Can you name a few?

 

Hightechrider Said:

The key challenges for sentiment analysis are:-

1) Named Entity Recognition - What is the person actually talking about, e.g. is 300 Spartans a group of Greeks or a movie?

2) Anaphora Resolution - the problem of resolving what a pronoun, or a noun phrase refers to. "We watched the movie and went to dinner; it was awful." What does "It" refer to?

3) Parsing - What is the subject and object of the sentence, which one does the verb and/or adjective actually refer to?

4) Sarcasm - If you don't know the author you have no idea whether 'bad' means bad or good.

5) Twitter - abbreviations, lack of capitals, poor spelling, poor punctuation, poor grammar, ...

 

ealdent Said:

I agree with Hightechrider that those are areas where Sentiment Analysis accuracy can see improvement. I would also add that sentiment analysis tends to be done on closed-domain text for the most part. Attempts to do it on open domain text usually winds up having very bad accuracy/F1 measure/what have you or else it is pseudo-open-domain because it only looks at certain grammatical constructions. So I would say topic-sensitive sentiment analysis that can identify context and make decisions based on that is an exciting area for research (and industry products).

I'd also expand his 5th point from Twitter to other social media sites (e.g. Facebook, Youtube), where short, ungrammatical utterances are commonplace.

 

Skarab Said:

I think the answer is the language complexity, mistakes in grammar, and spelling. There is vast of ways people expresses there opinions, e.g., sarcasms could be wrongly interpreted as extremely positive sentiment.

 

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