SwissText 2017

This is the Archive Website of Swisstext

The website of this year's SwissText is available at

www.swisstext.org

Important Dates

10.04.2017	Submission Deadline
05.05.2017	Notification of Speakers
~~15.05.2017~~ 31.05.2017	End of Registration (Extended)
09.06.2017	Conference

News

6.7.2017	Videos and Slides of the presentations are online.
10.6.2017	The second Swiss Text Analytics Conference is over! We had more than 180 participants and excellent presentations!
1.6.2017	Program: Definitive conference program is now online!
5.5.2017	Program: The program committee selected 14 Talks and 19 Posters for the presentation at the SwissText.
18.3.2017	Prof. Verena Rieser will give a keynote. She leads the NLP research group on Spoken Dialogue Systems and Natural Language Generation at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
14.2.2017	The Call for Presentations is now available.
18.1.2017	Peter Stengard, Principal Data Scientist at Microsoft, will give a keynote at SwissText. He was lead data scientist for BMW Oracle Racing during the team's victorious challenge of the 33rd Americas's Cup, and is now working on large-scale solutions for text analytics at Microsoft.
12.01.2017	Website of SwissText 2017 is online. Call for Sponsors and Flyer are available.

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 2017, the second edition of the national conference for text analytics.

Program

SwissText 2017 is a one-day conference on automatic text analytics. The conference will see keynotes and presentations by distinguished international experts from research and industry, and an poster exhibition of recent research results. Last year, we had speakers from international IT giants such as Google and IBM, Swiss companies (e.g. SwissCom), startups, and several universities, and there were more than 30 posters in the exhibition.

Keynote Speakers

Peter Stengard, Principal Data Scientist, Microsoft
Peter Stengard was lead data scientist for BMW Oracle Racing during the team's victorious challenge of the 33rd Americas's Cup. He is now working on large-scale solutions for text analytics at Microsoft and develops industry solutions using Artificial Intelligence for Social Analytics and Text Mining.
Verena Rieser, Professor, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Verena Rieser leads the NLP research group on Spoken Dialogue Systems and Natural Language Generation at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Her research aims to create accessible, interactive natural language interfaces, and she has pioneered work in using Reinforcement Learning for multimodal dialogue systems. She currently serves as a faculty advisor for the Amazon Alexa Challenge and as an area chair for ACL 2017.
Margot Mieskes, Professor, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
Margot Mieskes is Professor for Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt. Her research aims at extracting information from natural language sources (both written and spoken) for interdisciplinary applications of NLP. She has worked on text summarization, speech recognition and speech synthesis.