Okay, I’m going out on a bit of a limb here, but in piecing a few things together that have emerged from my research into sentiment analysis natural language processing (NLP) software, my bet is that Factiva, which is beta testing some sentiment analysis software from an unnamed third party for its Factiva Insight product but won’t say who it is, may be considering integrating the sentiment detection product from Corpora Software. Corpora Software is a very interesting UK firm that offers a variety of information overload and sentiment analysis software.

A few months ago that firm issued a press release that stated:

” WE HAVE ENTERED INTO A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP TO SUPPLY A SECOND MAJOR news organisation with our software. This will be embedded into their
global infrastructure in a deal worth a seven-figure US dollar amount to
Corpora…”

” WE CAN CONFIRM TODAY THAT WE HAVE WON A SIMILAR CONTRACT WITH FACTIVA (a Dow Jones and Reuters company), a major global business intelligence
provider, worth an initial $590k.”

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Based on the above, and reading between the lines in several conversations I’ve had with vendors and analysts in this field, I’m guessing that we’ll soon hear about a deal on Sentiment from Factiva referring to its deal with Corpora.

I’ve been very impressed with what I’ve learned about Corpora’s approach to sentiment detection, (they have an excellent white paper on their approach) and think that if indeed this is the vendor Factiva has chosen, that it will be well served.

I’ll be posting more on sentiment detection software again…it’s a fascinating topic that is moving very quickly and getting a much higher profile all the time.

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