June 23, 2006

Notes from the Second Annual Text Analytics (formerly Text Mining) Summit

Thursday morning at the Text Analytics Summit featured, among other things, one excellent panel, a couple of lively and interesting presentations, and the usual tedious discussion of “What do we call this technology area anyway?” Lots of airtime went to industry stars such as Olivier Jouve (SPSS), Todd Wakefield (Attensity), Ramana Rao (Inxight), and Mary Crissey (SAS). There also was a gratifying repetition from the front of the room of the statement “Curt is right”, so as of when I’m writing these notes (midday) I’m happy, even if Ramana somehow neglected to join that chorus …

Repeated themes and messages included:

I’ve only slept one night in the past three, so I’ll stop here and blog more about the conference later.

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