80Legs at Defrag 2009: Making the Entire Web Semantic
Here’s video of Shion Deysarkar’s presentation at this year’s Defrag conference. Watch closely and you’ll see a mention of Extractiv: our next big thing!
Lazy Sunday Update: Slides after the jump
Tracking Sentiment from Day 1 of Defrag
Language Computer has been tracking what Twitter users are saying about the first day of Defrag 2009 using Positively, our sentiment extraction tool.
The Good
Here are the top 8 topics people are positive about (ranked in order of how strongly people are feeling).
1. People: So happy, favorite, fun, great, incredibly interesting, interesting, really nice, smart, super smart, way more interesting
2. Day: good, great, lovely, really fun
3. Dinner: Awesome, Excellent, absolutely delightful, lovely
4. Topics: good, positive
5. Discussions: Liking, interesting, lively
6. Talks: interesting, really interesting, visually engaging
7. Wifi: as good as the weather, enjoying, hella sweet
8. EventVue, livestream, backchannel: Really enjoying, nice
(Ranking was determined on the inherent expected strength of the sentiment (e.g. hella sweet >> okay) and the number of tweets we found which expressed the same sentiment. We’ve only listed the unique sentiments up above.)
The Bad
Far fewer negative sentiments. In most cases, we couldn’t find something that three people were griping about. Here are the two that reached that threshold:
1. Kessler’s talk: dangerous, doesn’t care, stupid, bad, provocative, pointless, useless
2. language on stage: offended, unnecessary, pointless
The Day 1 “Winners”
After Day1, here are the most positively regarded Twitterers using the #defrag or #defragcon hashtags: @bpm140, @stoweboyd, @sacca, @benkepes
The Overall Score
So far, tweets are running 88% positive overall for Defrag 2009 after day 1.
Want more info on sentiment tracking on Twitter using Positively? Contact me at andy@languagecomputer.com.
Tags: Defrag09, defragcon, semantic search, Sentiment