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What is Text Analytics World?

Text Analytics World is the full-spectrum event for text analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. This conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to strengthen the impact of text analytics deployment.  For more on this conference’s scope, see About Text Analytics World.

Who is Text Analytics World for?

No matter what your role in or relationship to text analytics projects, you will find value in the sessions, case studies and networking available at Text Analytics World.

  • Managers. Project leaders, directors, CXOs, vice presidents, investors
    and decision makers of any kind involved with analytics, or with the need to leverage textual data.
  • Marketers. Marketing personnel who wish to better understand customer need, sentiment and concerns.
  • Technology experts. Analysts, data scientists, BI directors, developers, DBAs, data warehousers, web analysts, and consultants who wish to extend their expertise to predictive analytics.

What is text analytics?

Text analytics leverages and learns from massive quantities of textual data to reveal customer intentions and sentiment, driving enterprise decisions and providing strategic insights. It is a set of analytical methods designed to operate across the written word, including call center notes, blogs, tweets, web pages, newspaper articles and much more. This kind of data is strongly distinct from that stored uniformly in database tables, and demands unique technology that integrates linguistics, grammar, math and knowledge engineering.

What will I learn at Text Analytics World?

  • New apps: New ways to apply text analytics.
  • Do better: How to achieve better results with text analytics.
  • Companies: What companies are at the leading edge of text analytics and what are they doing?
  • Solutions: Which are the best text analytics solution providers, what do they do and how do they compare?
  • Colleagues: Who are my colleagues facing the same challenges as I and how can we work together?
  • Resources: What other resources are available?

Is this a “data mining” conference?

Partially – text analytics can be used to turn unstructured text into data.  Depending on one’s definition of “data mining” – a subjective area – text analytics, a.k.a, text mining is distinct in that it may be employed for wider variety of value-driving applications.

Is Text Analytics World run by a software vendor?

No. Text Analytics World provides a balanced view of text analytics methods and tools across software vendors and solution providers.

Does Text Analytics World cover natural language processing or computational linguistics research?

No. Text Analytics World is focused on today’s commercial deployment of text analytics, and while the conference may cover potential applications of these areas of academic research, it does not focus directly on pure research.

How may I be notified of upcoming TAW events?

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Are you considering new speakers for Text Analytics World?

Yes, for speaker information and proposal submissions, click here.

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