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SUMMARY:Discursis: A Computational Methodology for the Analysis of Communi
 cation Data  - Dr Daniel Angus\, The University of Queensland
DTSTART:20141001T150000Z
DTEND:20141001T160000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:Discursis is a new communication analytic technology that allo
 ws an analyst to visually examine and assess text based communication data
 . Discursis can be used to analyse conversations\, web forums\, social med
 ia\, training scenarios\, and many other individual and multi-party commun
 ication situations. Discursis automatically processes transcribed text to 
 build a statistically grounded language model\, and uses this language mod
 el to highlight participant interactions around specific topics over the t
 ime-course of the communication. Discursis can assist analysts in understa
 nding the structure\, information content\, and inter-speaker relationship
 s that are present within input data. In addition to rich descriptive visu
 al outputs\, Discursis also provides quantitative measures of key metrics\
 , such as topic introduction\; topic consistency\; and topic novelty. In t
 his talk I will showcase recent findings from the application of Discursis
  to a variety of datasets\, including doctor/patient consultations\, telev
 ision broadcast interviews\, audience panel discussion programs\, and conv
 ersations with persons with language impairments. 
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 21 Station Road\, Cambridge
 \, CB1 2FB
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