Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rick Kieser, CEO of Ascribe (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else that is significantly different in the text analytics field currently? Rick Kieser: The other element is taking a look at foreign languages through text analytics and how that evolution is taking place. The context of generating sentiment from English vs. French vs. German is very different in terms of

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rick Kieser, CEO of Ascribe (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: We have done a story on Clarabridge, and I met the founders of Attensity a long time ago, when they were just starting up. Can you talk about the technological point of view? Who is doing what, and how would you rate those approaches? Rick Kieser: I mentored a firm that was a

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rick Kieser, CEO of Ascribe (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What are the trends in the data you are processing? Rick Kieser: It is difficult to say, because we process more than 300 million comments a year. Since we have such a large platform, we span the major industries – pharmaceutical, transportation, energy, financial services.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rick Kieser, CEO of Ascribe (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: The problem you describe is clear and easy to understand: unstructured data that comes through open-ended comment boxes in market research forms. You help process those comments and categorize them. Tell us more about what other trends are driving behavior change inside the corporations that are prompting you to move more in that

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rick Kieser, CEO of Ascribe (Part 1)

Rick Kieser is the chief executive officer of Ascribe, a company that provides a comment management platform to drive meaningful insights from customer comments and in doing so processes more than 300 million customer comments per year. Rick has more than 20 years of operating, management consulting, and venture capital experience. In this interview he

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Deal Radar 2008: UpTake

UpTake is a travel site that offers users options to help them plan themed trips such as kid- or pet-friendly trips, girl getaways and romantic escapes. The site caters to the millions of people who have yet to decide what type of holiday they want – where to go, what to do, where to stay,

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Deal Radar 2008: Powerset

Powerset concentrates on natural language processing (NLP) to search the web, meaning that the search engine uses whole phrases rather than just keywords, making it easier to get the results required. The site currently uses natural language queries to search Wikipedia. Powerset’s real strength is the way it indexes web pages: pages are analyzed according

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Jim Satloff & Neal Goldman’s AI Engine, Inform (Part 3)

SM: What is your personal background? JS: I have an undergraduate degree in computer science with a specialization in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. I also have a graduate degree in business (an MBA). Both degrees are from Columbia University. Prior to joining Inform, I was the CEO and President of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin,

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