Hamilton Institute New Maynooth Faculty Seminar

Wednesday, February 21, 2018 - 13:00 to 14:00
Hamilton Institute Seminar Room 317, 3rd Floor, Eolas Building, North Campus

Speaker: ​Dr Brian Davis, Maynooth University Department of Computer Science

Title: Towards multilingual aspect orientated sentiment analyses of financial microblogs!​

Abstract: Social media data represents a  collective barometer of thoughts and ideas touching every facet of society. Social Sentiment Indices powered by X-Scores (SSIX)  Grant No 645425 is an Innovation Action funded under the EC H2020 framework.  The project aims to provide European SMEs with a collection of easy to interpret tools to analyse and understand social media users attitudes for any given subject;  these sentiment characteristics can be exploited to help SMEs to operate more efficiently resulting in increased revenues  SSIX searches and indexes conversations taking place on social network  services, such as Twitter, StockTwits, and Facebook including the most  reliable and authoritative Newswires, online newspapers, trade publications  and blogs.  The platform classifies and scores content using a framework of qualitative and quantitative parameters called X-Scores, regardless of  language, locale or data architecture. The X-Scores framework will interpret economically significant sentiment signals in social media conversations  producing sentiment metrics, such as momentum, awareness scope, topic density and historical comparison. These metrics will create commercially viable social sentiment indices, which can be tailored to any domain of interest. By enabling European SMEs to analyse and leverage social sentiment in their  discipline, SSIX will facilitate the creation of innovative products and services by enhancing the investment decision making process, thus increasing  revenue while also minimizing risk. The focus of this talk will be on the research and development surrounding the ongoing multilingual aspect  orientated sentiment analysis from financial microblogs the challenges encountered within the SSIX project, the various levels of linguistic analysis required to overcome these and solutions and resources provided by the project. ​

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