[Colloquium] [TTIC Talks] TTIC Colloquium: Bing Liu, UIC

[Jinbo Xu]

Just a reminder that the colloquium talk will start at 11am.

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Liv Leader <lleader at ttic.edu> wrote:
>
> When:     Tuesday, December 4 @ 11 a.m.
>
> Where:    TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Room #526
>
> Who,      Bing Liu, UIC
>
> Title:      Analysis and Modeling of Opinions and Sentiments
>
> Abstract: Sentiment analysis or opinion mining is the computational study of
> people's opinions, sentiments, evaluations, attitudes, and emotions from
> written language. It is one of the most active research areas in natural
> language processing, and is also widely studied in data mining and Web
> mining. Its popularity is mainly due to two reasons. First, it is useful to
> every organization and individual because opinions are central to almost all
> human activities and are key influencers of our behaviors. Whenever we need
> to make a decision, we want to hear others' opinions. That is why
> applications of sentiment analysis have flourished in recent years. Second,
> it presents many challenging research problems, which had never been
> attempted before the year 2000. Part of the reason for the lack of study
> before was that there was little opinionated text in digital forms. It is no
> surprise that the inception and the rapid growth of the field coincide with
> those of the social media on the Web. This research has in fact spread
> outside of computer science to the management sciences and social sciences
> due to its importance to business and society as a whole. In this talk, I
> will first introduce the field and its challenges. I will then discuss some
> of our recent work on modeling of opinions, sentiments and beyond.
>
> Host: Jinbo Xu, j3xu at ttic.edu
>
>
> --
> Liv Leader
> Director of Human Resources and International Affairs
>
> Toyota Technological Institute Chicago
> 6045 S Kenwood Ave
> Chicago, IL 60637
> Phone- (773) 702-5033
> Fax-     (773) 834-9881
> Email-  lleader at ttic.edu
> Web-   www.ttic.edu



-- 
_________________________________________
Associate Professor
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
fax: 773 834 2557, Google Voice: 773 359 3721
http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~jinbo/