SPEAKER PROFILES

23 November • Monday

09 h 00 – 09 h 15

 

Welcome
Speaker: Philippe Wacker, LT-Innovate

09 h 15 – 09 h 40

 

Text Analytics in Market Research: Opportunities, Challenges and Key Success Factors
Speaker: Jean-François Damais, Ipsos

09 h 40 – 10 h 05

 

Rich Social Media Analysis: Topics, Themes, and Taxonomy
Speaker: Michalis Michael, DigitalMR

10 h 05 – 10 h 30

 

Impact and Insight: Surveys vs. Social Media
Speaker: Preriit Souda, TNS

10 h 30 – 11 h 00

 

Break

11 h 00 – 11 h 30

 

Language Technologies at Google
Speaker: Enrique Alfonseca, Google

11 h 30 – 11 h 55

 

Detect Communities, Discover Relationships, Craft Messages, and Connect
Speaker: Inés Campanella, Acceso

11 h 55 – 12 h 30

 

Panel: Enterprise/Implemenation
Speakers: Jo Coutuer, Deloitte - Matthias Heyn, SDL International - Jochen Hummel, ESTeam

12 h 30 – 13 h 30

 

Lunch

13 h 30 – 14 h 00

 

LT is Essential for Wolters Kluwer's Business Strategy
Speaker: Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer

14 h 00 – 14 h 20

 

Semantic Solutions for Scientific and Academic Publishers
Speaker: Georgi Gergiev, Ontotext

14 h 20 – 14 h 45

 

Content Strategy at Belga News Agency
Speaker: Tom Wuytack, Belga News Agency

14 h 45 – 15 h 10

 

Real Time Story Clustering
Speaker: Mattan Tenne, AoL Relegence

15 h 10 – 15 h 40

 

Break

15 h 40 – 16 h 15

 

The LTi Cloud for a Multilingual Digital Market
Speakers: Jochen Hummel, ESTeam - Luc Meertens, CrossLang

16 h 15 – 16 h 40

 

Understand Markets in a Multi-lingual World
Speakers: Francois-Regis Chaumartin, Proxem & Claude Fauconnet, Total

16 h 40 – 17 h 40

 

Spotlight presentations
Speakers: Michael Fuchs, ABBYY - Janna Lipenkova, Anacode - Dorota Iskra, Appen

17 h 40 – 19 h 30

 

Networking Reception

24 November • Tuesday

09 h 00 – 09 h 10

 

Welcome
Speaker: Seth Grimes, Alta Plana

09 h 10 – 09 h 35

 

Social Media Analytics for Competitor Intelligence
Speaker: Philipp Cimiano, Semalytics

09 h 35 – 09 h 55

 

How Users' Opinions Affect Reputation
Speaker: Filipa Peleja, Universidade Nova de Lisboa / Yahoo Research Barcelona

09 h 55 – 10 h 15

  

Listen to Your Users
Speaker: Marc Jarpa, SocialPoint

10 h 15 – 10 h 40

  

Measure Customer Satisfaction in Social Media
Speaker: Marcus Hassler, econob

10 h 40 – 11 h 10

 

Break

11 h 10 – 11 h 40

 

Automated Multilingual Text Analysis in the Europe Media Monitor
Speaker: Ralf Steinberger, European Commission - Joint Research Centre

11 h 40 – 12 h 05

 

Language Use, Customer Context and the Customer Journey
Speaker: Scott Nowson, Xerox

12 h 05 – 12 h 30

 

Bringing in non financial data into the board room - applying NLP to identify environmental, social and governance issues
Speaker: Jérôme Basdevant, eRevalue

12 h 30 – 13 h 30

 

Lunch

13 h 30 – 13 h 55

 

Political Buzz – why social media counts
Speaker: Lauren Azulay, Confirmit

13 h 55 – 14 h 20

 

ODISAE: A Collaborative Project to Analyze Customer Support Conversation
Speaker: Hugues de Mazancourt, Eptica

14 h 20 – 14 h 45

 

Advances in Arabic Language Technologies
Speaker: Ahmed Ali (video), Qatar Computing Research Institute

14 h 45 - 15 h 05

  

US Election Insights in Trends and Polls in Real Time based on Social Media
Speaker: Ward van Breda, Transpolitics

15 h 05 – 15 h 25

 

Break

15 h 25 – 15 h 45

 

Language Understanding and Deep Learning: Experiences from the MUSE Project
Speaker: Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

15 h 45 – 16 h 05

  

Multilingual Sentiment Analysis for Financial Indices (SSiX)
Speaker: David Mekkaoui, Euractiv

16 h 05 – 16 h 25

 

Useful Sentiment Analysis
Speaker: Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai

16 h 25 – 16 h 45

  

MixedEmotions: Analysis for Social TV, Brand Reputation Management, Call Centres
Speaker: Carlos A. Iglesias, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

16 h 45 – 17 h 10

  

What’s possible when you know what the whole world is thinking about any topic at any time?
Speaker: Joe Rice, Twitter

17 h 10 – 17 h 15

 

Closure
Speaker: Jochen Hummel, LT-Innovate