SwissText is a one-day conference on automatic text analytics, which
takes place June 9, 2016 in Winterthur. We invite practitioners, end
users, software vendors, researchers and data scientists to join
SwissText and share their expertise and experience with the audience.
SwissText brings 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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Evaluation of Social Media
- Semantic Analysis
- Chatbots
- Deep Learning for Text Analysis
- Machine Translation
- Text Classification
- Text Generation
The first edition of the conference was held in 2016 with more than
170 participants and a distinguished lineup of speakers from
international IT giants such as Google and IBM, Swiss companies (e.g.
SwissCom), startups, and several universities. 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.
Presentation Types
The conference will see the following types of presentations:
Survey:
Distinguished experts are invited to present an overview of
state-of-the-art technologies and solutions in one sub-field of text
analytics. Surveys will not dive deep into single technologies, but
rather give an overview of the entire sub-field, and describe current
trends and solutions from “a bird eyes view”.
Technical Papers:
For the technical track, we are looking for new
and innovative results in all aspects of automatic text analysis. These
results should be presented in technical depths, for an audience with
profound skills in programming and data science. It is allowed to submit
papers that were already presented at other conferences.
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, and present lessons-learned and
best-practices. Technical details should be avoided in these
presentations, since typical audience will be project managers and
decision makers.
Product/Tool Demonstration:
There exists an exciting variety of
tools and products for automatic text analytics. We invite innovative
solutions for a short demo.
- Surveys and demonstrations will be oral presentations; technical
papers and showcases will be presented orally or as posters, as
determined by the program committee. All presentations are in English,
and will be listed in the conference program booklet.
Submission
Submissions should contain a short abstract that describes the
outline of the intended presentation and the target audience (max 1000
characters).
