What many of our customers might not know about Evercontact and its team is that we’re pretty darn geeky, especially when it comes to language technology.  If you haven’t already, you can read the “inside story” about Evercontact’s email scraper or if you’re just as geeky as us, you might be interested in a language technology conference we’ll be presenting at next month where we’ll be unveiling a project that digs into that same type of semantic technology but with a much different spin!

 

On December 4th in Brussels at LT-Accelerate, Gaëlle Recourcé, our CSO will be speaking about a research consortium we’ve been participating in the past few months to deliver a simple but powerful Customers Analytics solution for the SME SaaS market. This “Combi analytics” solution will focus on the “common marketing funnel metrics advocated in growth hacking (AAAR …) and interpreting the evolution of these metrics with an automatic reasoning module based on users verbatims“.  

 

 
Combi’s goal is to deliver a turn key solution for analyzing customer data that includes mining, analytics and reasonings.  It provides the results of these analyses in a user-friendly report combining text and graphical elements that highlight the most relevant facts and figures and provide leads for explanation and understanding.  Gaëlle will be talking about the general architecture, the language technology that’s been put to use and will do a demo with an early prototype.

 

Who else is in the Combi Consortium

The Combi consortium combines deep transversal technical knowledge in diverse fields such as text mining, data mining, artificial intelligence, natural language generation and data vizualization. It brings together 5 French SMEs and one public research center :

*TEMIS – text mining and knowledge extraction

*ISTHMA – data mining

*KWAGA – NLP and AI

*YSEOP – natural language generation and automated reporting

*QUNB – navigation analytics & data viz

*an academic partner, the Alpage team from INRIA (the French national research lab in automation and computer science) is world renowned team in NLG.

 

What else you can catch at LT-Accelerate

Of course, Gaelle’s presentation will be quite an eye-opener on this new use of language technology within the Analytics sector, but there’s a ton more than you can catch as well at the conference.  Learn more on their website as the schedule below certainly promises to please!

Should you be interested in a discount, please do feel free to reach out to us so we can point you in contact with their team to get you set up!

 

December 4 • Thursday
09h00 – 09h15		The Language Technology Opportunity Speaker: Philippe Wacker (LT-Innovate)
09h15 – 09h35		Global Analytics: Text, Speech, Sentiment, and Sense Speaker: Seth Grimes (Alta Plana)
09h35 – 10h15		Keynote: Innovation and Disruption in the Insights Industry Speaker: Dan Foreman (ESOMAR)
10h15 – 11h00		Panel: Language-Business Vision Speakers: John Lervik (Cxsense), Luc Meertens (CrossLang), Robert Etches(TextMinded), Hercules Fisherman (Constant Commerce)
11h00 – 11h20		break
11h20 – 11h45		Measuring the World: How to Prove the True Financial Value of Social Media Speaker: Roland Fiege (IPG Mediabrands)
11h45 – 12h10		Real Time Social Media Analysis of Large Events: FIFA 2014 World Cup Speaker: Claudio Pinhanez (IBM Research)
12h10 – 12h35		Social Media Analytics for Emergency Management Speakers: Blas Croche (Telefonica), Antonio Matarranz (Daedalus)
12h35 – 13h35		lunch
13h35 – 14h05		Understand Consumers: Mindset, Intentions, and Needs Speaker: Ines Campanella (Havas Media)
14h05 – 14h25		Making Sense of Enterprise Data Speaker: Claude Fauconnet (TOTAL)
14h25 – 14h45		How to Use Social to Improve Quality Control and Save Money Speaker: Olle Hagelin (Sony Mobile)
14h45 – 15h10		Email Analytics for Customer Support Centres Speaker: Lipika Dey (Tata Consultancy Services)
14h45 – 15h10		Big data and Voice Speaker: Detlev Artelt (Airvox)
15h20 – 15h50		break
15h50 – 16h15		Turn-key Customer Analytics: The Combi R&D Project Speaker: Gaelle Recourcé (Evercontact)
16h15 – 16h40		Advertising vs. Privacy: Emotional and Rational Responses Speaker: Jon Morris (Univ of Florida)
16h40 – 17h25		Content Generation Panel: The New Science of Information Delivery Speakers: Robert Dale (Arria), Matt Rauscher (Yseop), Claude de Loupy(Data2Content)
17h25 – 17h30		Day 1 wrap-up Speaker: Philippe Wacker (LT-Innovate)
17h30 – 20h00		Networking Reception
December 5 • Friday
08h30 – 09h15		An International Challenge: E-Government, Language, and Analytics Speakers: Spyridon Pilos (European Commission), Antoine Isaac(Europeana), Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde)
09h15 – 09h40		Smart Content Speaker: Michelle Gregory (Elsevier)
09h40 – 10h05		How News and Publishing Use Language Technologies Speaker: Jarred McGinnis (Logomachy)
10h05 – 10h30		A Language for Search and Discovery Speaker: Tony Russell-Rose (UXLabs)
10h30 – 11h00		break
11h00 – 11h25		Knowledge Across Languages Speaker: Michael Wetzel (Coreon)
11h25 – 12h00		Lightning Talks: Confirmit, TextGain, Talkwalker, TechScribe Speakers: Lauren Azulay (Confirmit), Guy De Pauw (Univ of Antwerp),Christophe Folschette (Talkwalker), Mike Unwalla (TechScribe)
12h00 – 12h10		S4: The Self-Service Semantic Suite Speaker: Marin Dimitrov (Ontotext)
12h10 – 12h30		Social Media Analytics as a Service Speaker: Diana Maynard (Univ of Sheffield)
12h30 – 13h30		lunch
13h30 – 14h00		Multi-Dimensional Sentiment Analysis Speaker: Stephen Pulman (Univ of Oxford)
14h00 – 14h25		Language Morphology for Sentiment Speaker: Pedro Cardoso (Synthesio)
14h25 – 15h10		Speech Analytics Panel: Information, Emotion, and Response Speakers: Kourosh Yunai (Mirsk),  Joshua Cummings (Cedat 85), Andy Peart(Artificial Solutions)
15h10 – 15h35		Connecting People and Stories in the Age of Analytics Speaker: Mohamed BenHaddou (MENTIS SA)
15h35 – 16h00		Identity Resolution in the Sharing Economy Speaker: Gregor Stewart (Basis Technology)
16h00 –  16h25		Social ROI is No Longer Fiction Speaker: Shree Dandekar (Dell)
16h25 – 16h35		Closure Speaker: Jochen Hummel (ESTeam)