Call for Speakers

Go Deeper: Build Smarter Solutions

http://dzceab466r34n.cloudfront.net/images_nl/sw/RoundbuttonTAF17Submit-200.pngThe newest addition to the Information Today conferences, Text Analytics Forum, is seeking knowledgeable experts and creative people with exciting new approaches to share their ideas on all things textual.

Text Analytics is a platform technology that adds depth and intelligence to any organization’s ability to utilize that most under-utilized resource – text. For many years the exponential growth of information has been experienced as a problem – information overload. However, with a new generation of text analytics tools and techniques, massive amounts of information are becoming part of the solution for an incredibly wide range of applications, from search that works to social media-fueled insights about customers and competitors to new flexible approaches to KM, new solutions to fake news, and more.

The Text Analytics Forum is designed to be a place for sharing ideas from how to get started to how to make the business case to the latest development best practices to use cases showcasing the cutting edge of myriad applications.

Speaking Topics

Text Analytics Forum is seeking speakers who inform and excite attendees with practical how-to’s, fascinating use cases that showcase the power of text analytics, new techniques and technologies, and new theoretical ideas that will guide us into the future. These techniques include auto-categorization, text mining, entity & fact extraction, sentiment analysis, machine learning, and more.

Speaking topics this year will include but not limited to:


  • New Text Analytics Techniques
  • Faceted Metadata Generation
  • Social Media Analysis
  • Deep Learning
  • Graph databases
  • Text Analytics ROI: Making the Business Case
  • How to Get Started in Text Analytics
  • Enterprise Social Networks
  • Text analytics and Big Data
  • Big Social Data’s Impact on Business
  • Advanced Twitter Applications: Stock Market to Politics
  • Beyond Sentiment Analysis – Understanding Customer’s Behavior
  • Voice of the Customer, Employee, Voter
  • Text Analytics and Fake News
  • Getting Outside Your Bubble with Text Analytics
  • Breaking Down Silos with Text Analytics
  • Fraud Detection
  • Text Analytics and Enterprise Search
  • Leveraging Text Analytics for Faceted Search
  • New Techniques in Semantic Search
  • Text Analytics Analysis of 2016 Election
  • 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
  • Text Analytics and Ontology Development – Fact Extraction and Text Mining
  • Text Analytics and SharePoint – Enhancing Taxonomies and Folksonomies
  • Text Analytics and Semantic Technology
  • Text Analytics and KM – from Expertise Location to Community Support
  • Advanced Knowledgebases – Beyond Personalization
  • E-Discovery Case Studies
  • Multiple Language Text Analytics
  • New Models of Knowledge Organization
  • Smarter Chat Bots
  • Open Source Text Analytics
  • Survey Analysis
  • Selecting the Right Text Analytics Tools
  • Machine Learning and Rules-based Approaches: Either/Or or And
  • Enterprise Text Analytics – Text in Every Department
  • Semi-supervised Learning for Multiple
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