SwissText 2016

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The main website of SwissText is available at

www.swisstext.org

Important Dates

4.4.2016	Submission Deadline
2.5.2016	Notification of Speakers
~~15.5.2016~~ 31.5.2016	End of Registration extended until End of May!
8.6.2016	Conference

News

5.7.2016	All Presentations and Posters are now online!
12.6.2016	The first Swiss Text Analytics Conference was a huge success with more than 170 participants.
2.5.2016	New Venue! Due to the large number of participants, we had to change the venue: The conference will now take place at Eulchpassage in the center of beautiful Winterthur!
6.3.2016	Katja Filippova, NLP expert at Google Zurich, will give a keynote at SwissText. She has worked, among other things, on text-to-text generation and summarization, and she will present some of the challenging work done at Google.
26.2.2016	SwissText is officially supported by 9 Swiss Universities
3.2.2016	Call for Presentations is available
5.2.2016	Registration is open now
30.1.2016	Two new partners: SGAICO (Swiss Group for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science) and SAA (Swiss Association for Analytics)
18.1.2016	We are proud to announce that Paolo Rosso will join our conference as keynote speaker. He is a distinguished Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València. and head of its Natural Language Engineering Lab and has published over 350 papers on plagiarism detection, author profiling and text analysis in general
12.1.2016	SwissText will be financially supported by CTI, the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation.
4.1.2016	Website is online

Text Analytics is used in many companies and industrial sectors, for instance for process optimization, for decision support, or to develop new products and services. On the other hand, there are many research groups at Swiss universities who do excellent and successful research in this field. Our goal is to bring together practitioners and researchers, to give an overview of existing solutions and technologies, and to come up with ideas for new and innovative projects using automatic text understanding.

In order to achieve this goal, we invite practitioners, analysts, end users, software vendors, researchers and data scientists to join SwissText 2016 the first national conference for text analytics.

Program

SwissText 2016 is a one-day conference on automatic text analytics. The conference will see presentations of various types: Surveys will give a broad overview of state-of-the-art technologies and solutions in text understanding; Showcases will present successful projects; and Open Problem Presentations, where practitioners from the industry present “their” open problem.

Please see the Call for Presentations for details (submission are not possible anymore).

You can download the Program Leaflet (pdf),which contains details and abstracts of the talks and posters.

Surveys

There has been tremendous progress in automatic text understanding in the last 3-5 years. New technologies have been established (e.g. word embeddings), breakthroughs were achieved using deep learning, and new products and services were introduced. In the conference, distinguished experts will present the current state-of-the-art in the most relevant fields of automatic text understanding.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Evaluation of Social Media
Semantic Analysis
Named Entity Recognition
Applications of Word Embeddings
Machine Translation
Text Summarization
Text Generation

These presentations will give the audience sufficient information to find out if the field is relevant to their daily work. For this reason, surveys will not dive deep into single technologies, but rather give an overview of the entire field, current trends and solutions from “a bird eyes view”.

Showcases

Many companies are using text analytics in their daily work, and various innovative products and services are already available. Showcase presentations will describe the most interesting and successful projects and applications.

Open Problem Presentations

One of the main goals of SwissText 2016 is to bridge the gap between research and industry. For this reason, we invite experts from industry to present and discuss “their” open problem. Each presentation will see a short introduction of the problem, followed by a brief discussion with the audience about potential solutions and approaches. At the end, interested experts can join a subgroup to further discuss the problem and maybe initiate a joint project.

Schedule

09:00	Registration + Coffee/Gipfeli
09:30	Welcome Message: Mark Cieliebak (ZHAW)
10:00	Keynote: Paolo Rosso (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
10:45	Survey Session 1: Hatem Ghorbel: Feature-based sentiment analysis in social media
11:10	Break
11:40	Keynote: Jürg Attinger (CTI)
12:10	Survey Session 2: Martin Jaggi: Deep Learning for Text - From Word Embeddings to Convolutional Neural Networks Nora Hollenstein and Tania Stephan: IBM Watson and the languages of Switzerland
13:00	Lunch Break
14:00	Track 1: René Haltiner, Michel Plüss, Simon Felix, Jonas Schwammberger, Michael Kalt, Manfred Vogel: Automated Drug Safety Processing Fabio Rinaldi and Lenz Furrer: Knowledge Discovery through Text Mining of the Biomedical Literature Gerold Schneider and Michi Amsler: Linguistically Motivated Trend Identification	Track 2: Jose Iria, Mirco Rossi, Torsten Butz, Gundula Heinatz: Information Extraction for Reinsurance of Pension Funds Roberto Nespeca: Statistical machine translation has reached industrial maturity – Do’s and Don’ts for managers Fatemeh Borran: Echo: Swisscom Customer Feedback Analyzer
15:15	Afternoon Break
15:35	Poster Session
16:05	Keynote: Katja Filippova (Google)
16:50	Closing
17:10	Apero

Presentations

Welcome Message
Mark Cieliebak
ZHAW
slides (pdf)
Author Profiling in Social Media: The Impact of Emotions on Age and Gender
Paolo Rosso
Universitat Politècnica of València
video (youtube)
slides (pdf)
Innovation is the Motor for your Success – CTI the Motor for your Innovation
Jürg Attinger
Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI)
video (youtube)
slides (pdf)
Not available
Natural Language Understanding at Google: An Overview of Research Topics
Katja Filippova
Google
Feature-based sentiment analysis in social media
Hatem Ghorbel
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland - Haute Ecole ARC Ingénierie
video (youtube)
Deep Learning for Text - From Word Embeddings to Convolutional Neural Networks
Martin Jaggi
ETH Zurich
video (youtube)
slides (pdf)
IBM Watson and the languages of Switzerland
Nora Hollenstein and Tania Stephan
IBM
video (youtube)
slides (pdf)
Automated Drug Safety Processing
René Haltiner, Michel Plüss, Simon Felix, Jonas Schwammberger, Michael Kalt, Manfred Vogel
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, Conprocs GmbH
video (youtube)
Information Extraction for Reinsurance of Pension Funds
Jose Iria, Mirco Rossi, Torsten Butz, Gundula Heinatz
Smart Analytics team, Die Mobiliar
video (youtube)
Knowledge Discovery through Text Mining of the Biomedical Literature
Fabio Rinaldi and Lenz Furrer
University of Zurich
video (youtube)
slides (pdf)
Statistical machine translation has reached industrial maturity – Do’s and Don’ts for managers
Roberto Nespeca
finnova AG Bankware, Institute of Computational Linguistics - University of Zurich
video (youtube)
slides (pdf)
Linguistically Motivated Trend Identification
Gerold Schneider and Michi Amsler
University of Zurich
video (youtube)
slides (pdf)
Echo: Swisscom Customer Feedback Analyzer
Fatemeh Borran
Swisscom
video (youtube)
slides (pdf)

Posters

A Game Theoretic Model for Word Sense Disambiguation
Rocco Tripodi
European Centre for Living Technology - Ca' Foscari University of Venice
poster (pdf)
Annotated corpus for protest event mining
Peter Makarov
University of Zurich
poster (pdf)
Deeper Insights into Social Media through IBM Watson Analytics
Alexander Lang
IBM Deutschland Research and Development
poster (pdf)
Discovering and Disambiguating Concepts about Software
Thomas Suter
Twygg
poster (pdf)
Energy discourses in Switzerland
Maren Runte
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) - School of Applied Linguistics
Integrating a customized SMT system into traditional computeraided translation workflows
Roberto Nespeca and Mathias Müller
finnova AG Bankware and Institute of Computational Linguistics - University of Zurich
poster (pdf)
Keeping an ear to the market with text analytics
Christian Rohrdantz
Vidatics GmbH
poster (pdf)
Leveraging Data-Driven Methods in Word-Level Language Identification
Ada Wan
University of Zurich
poster (pdf)
Linguistic text extraction and translation in libraries
Gerald Peichl and Manfred Hauer
Universitätsbibliothek St. Gallen, AGI – Information Management Consultants, Neustadt a.d.W.
Listening to employees: Using text analytics to change the employee survey
Andrew Marritt
OrganizationView
poster (pdf)
Mining and Opening up the Biodiversity Library
Donat Agosti
Plazi
MODERN: Modeling Discourse Entities and Relations for Coherent Machine Translation
Laura Mascarell
University of Zurich
poster (pdf)
Multilanguage sentiment-analysis of Twitter data on the example of Swiss politicians
Lucas Brönnimann
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)
poster (pdf)
Probabilistic Bag-of-Hyperlinks Model for Entity Linking
Octavian Ganea
ETH Zurich
poster (pdf)
Soda - Social Media Data Analysis
Jérôme Treboux
HES-SO // Valais
poster (pdf)
Statements about the Future: Automatically extracting futurerelevant Knowledge from Documents
Walter Kehl
ForeKnowledge GmbH
poster (pdf)
SWICICO: Social Media Analysis Based on Linked Data for New trends of Chinese Tourists in Switzerland
Zhan Liu, Nicole Glassey Balet, Fabian Cretton, Maria Sokhn, Anne Le Calvé
Data Semantics Lab - University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO Valais-Wallis)
poster (pdf)
Tel(s)-Telle(s) Signs
Ada Wan
University of Zurich
poster (pdf)
Text Categorization Survey - From the Vector Space Model to Deep Learning
Tim vor der Brück
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
poster (pdf)
Understanding Medical Data: Text Analysis and Coding with Semfinder Expert System
Hans Rudolf Straub
Semfinder AG
poster (pdf)
Using Apache Stanbol to automatically extract concepts from posts exchanged in Wordpress
Salvatore Vanini
Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)
poster (pdf)
Using Network Analysis to Uncloak Thematic Pathways and Extract Stuff from Unstructured Texts
Kimmo Elo
Åbo Akademi University
poster (pdf)
Using semantic analytics and AI to map knowledge extracted from experts and documents
ONDO Constant
Exelop SA
poster (pdf)
Why D. Trump will win the presidential election
Jacques Savoy and Jean-Michel Stampfli
University of Neuchatel, Institute for Applied Argumentation Research Bern
poster (pdf)

Venue

SwissText will be held on the 8th of June 2016 in the ZHAW Eulachpassage in Winterthur (building TN at ZHAW Campus Winterthur, Technikumstrasse 71) The venue is located in the historic heart of the city, a 5 minutes’ walk from Winterthur main railway station and has a directly attached parking deck.

Directions: Google Maps, ZHAW Location map

Winterthur

Registration

Registration deadline	~~May 15, 2016~~ May 31, 2016
Participation Fee	CHF 80.–

Conference Registration includes:

Admission to all sessions
Coffee and refreshment breaks
Lunch
Conference apero

Organization

Conference Chair: Mark Cieliebak

Organizers: Bettina Bhend, Dominic Egger, Simon Müller, Daniel Schutzbach

Programm Committee:

Ivo Blohm, University of St. Gallen
Mark Cieliebak, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Dominique Genoud, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO)
Martin Jaggi, ETH Zurich
Roberto Mastropietro, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich
Jürgen Spielberger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Manfred Vogel, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)
Jürgen Vogel, Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)
Tim vor der Brück, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)

The conference is funded by CTI - the Swiss Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation, and organized by Datalab, the Data Science Laboratory of ZHAW.