About TAW

Text Analytics World is the full-spectrum conference that covers all aspects of text analytics. To solidify the business value you gain from text analytics, TAW delivers the latest methods/techniques, demonstrating their deployment across a wide range of industries large and small. TAW also explores the full range of vendor solutions and various forms of text analytics enterprise deployment.

This leading event provides the means for people in fields traditionally separate and siloed to communicate and learn from one another – discovering how much they can gain from an interdisciplinary collaboration.

TAW explores five major areas of text analytics:

• Big Data – Including integration of text analytics and predictive analytics – converting text into data and enhancing text mining applications, decision support, topic discovery, predictive modeling
  and more
• Social Media – Including sentiment analysis, voice of the customer, and other new social applications
• Enterprise Applications – Including enterprise search and search based applications, document processing and smart documents, content management, productivity and findability
• Intelligence Applications – Including business intelligence, customer intelligence, collaboration, security, fraud detection, survey analysis, and more
• Knowledge Organization – Including categorization techniques, noun phrase extraction approaches, taxonomy development and applications, semantic web and semantic technologies, , and new knowledge models

Topics to be explored at TAW Boston, October 3-4, 2012 include:

• Text Analytics and Mining Big Data
• How Big Social Data is Impacting Business
• Advanced Twitter Applications: Stock Market to Politics
• Beyond Sentiment Analysis – Understanding Customer’s Behavior
• New Approaches in Voice of the Customer Applications
• Using Real Voice for Voice of the Customer
• Text Analytics for Social Media
• Text Analytics and Enterprise Search
• New Approaches in Text Analytics – Ensemble Models and More
• Social Media Mining for Customer Insight and Competitive Intelligence
• Building a Corporate Taxonomy with Text Mining and Text Analytics Tools
• Designing Taxonomies for Text Analytics Applications
• Leveraging Text Analytics for Faceted Search
• Text Analytics and Enhancing Taxonomy / Folksonomy in SharePoint 2010
• Semantic Wikis and Applications
• Semantically Enabled Consumer Intelligence
• Semantic Search Applications