Semantria

Last updated
Semantria, Inc.
company   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Industry Software
Founded2011
Headquarters Boston, MA
Key people
Jeff Catlin, CEO of Lexalytics
Products Text analytics
Website www.lexalytics.com

Semantria [1] is owned by sentiment analysis company Lexalytics, from which it was spun out in 2011. Semantria offers text analysis via API and Excel plugin. It differs from Lexalytics in that it is offered via API and Excel plugin, and in that it incorporates a bigger knowledge base and uses deep learning. [2]

Contents

History

Semantria was founded by in February 2011 in an attempt to bring sentiment analysis to a larger audience. Its goal was to make the process accessible for under $1,000 USD in less than three minutes. [3] Semantria continues to support the largest number of languages by any single SaaS sentiment analysis vendor. [4] This ambitious start led to Semantria receiving a five star rating from Tech World Australia a year after it was founded. [4] This early success lead the acquisition of several important accounts in retail, market research, consumer reviews and social media marketing. [4]

Semantria continued successfully despite never accepting venture funding. [5] In November 2013, Semantria announced a partnership with Diffbot: Diffbot would undertake the task of identifying the most important passages of a document and Semantria would then perform text analysis using those passages. [6] [7] According to a January 2014 press release, Semantria grew its revenues by 600% supported by the Oracle Eloqua platform. [8] [9] [10] Later that year, in the summer of 2014, Lexalytics acquired Semantria for around $10 million USD. [11]

Media coverage

In November 2013, GigaOm listed Semantria as one of the top startups using deep learning, along with AlchemyAPI, Cortica, and Ersatz. [2]

Related Research Articles

Java (programming language) Object-oriented programming language

Java is a general-purpose programming language that is class-based, object-oriented, and designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers write once, run anywhere (WORA), meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode that can run on any Java virtual machine (JVM) regardless of the underlying computer architecture. The syntax of Java is similar to C and C++, but it has fewer low-level facilities than either of them. As of 2019, Java was one of the most popular programming languages in use according to GitHub, particularly for client-server web applications, with a reported 9 million developers.

This article is a comparison of issue tracking systems that are notable, including bug tracking systems, help desk and service desk issue tracking systems, as well as asset management systems. The comparison includes client-server application, distributed and hosted systems.

RapidMiner is a data science software platform developed by the company of the same name that provides an integrated environment for data preparation, machine learning, deep learning, text mining, and predictive analytics. It is used for business and commercial applications as well as for research, education, training, rapid prototyping, and application development and supports all steps of the machine learning process including data preparation, results visualization, model validation and optimization. RapidMiner is developed on an open core model. The RapidMiner Studio Free Edition, which is limited to 1 logical processor and 10,000 data rows is available under the AGPL license, by depending on various non-opensource components. Commercial pricing starts at $5,000 and is available from the developer.

Oracle Spatial and Graph, formerly Oracle Spatial, forms a separately-licensed option component of the Oracle Database. The spatial features in Oracle Spatial and Graph aid users in managing geographic and location-data in a native type within an Oracle database, potentially supporting a wide range of applications — from automated mapping, facilities management, and geographic information systems (AM/FM/GIS), to wireless location services and location-enabled e-business. The graph features in Oracle Spatial and Graph include Oracle Network Data Model (NDM) graphs used in traditional network applications in major transportation, telcos, utilities and energy organizations and RDF semantic graphs used in social networks and social interactions and in linking disparate data sets to address requirements from the research, health sciences, finance, media and intelligence communities.

JavaFX

JavaFX is a software platform for creating and delivering desktop applications, as well as rich Internet applications (RIAs) that can run across a wide variety of devices. JavaFX is intended to replace Swing as the standard GUI library for Java SE, but both will be included for the foreseeable future. JavaFX has support for desktop computers and web browsers on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. Since the JDK 11 release in 2018, JavaFX is part of the open-source OpenJDK, under the OpenJFX project. Oracle 'Premier Support' for JavaFX is also available, for the current long-term version, through March 2022.

Twitoaster was a Twitter web application that threaded and archived users' conversations in real time. The service is often used by journalists, bloggers or companies who need to collect, organize and keep a track of their Twitter mentions.

Lexalytics, Inc. provides sentiment and intent analysis to an array of companies using SaaS and cloud based technology. Salience 6, the engine behind Lexalytics, was built as an on-premises, multi-lingual text analysis engine. It is leased to other companies who use it to power filtering and reputation management programs. In July, 2015 Lexalytics acquired Semantria to be used as a cloud option for its technology.

Joyent Inc. is a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in application virtualization and cloud computing. On June 15, 2016, the company was acquired by Samsung Electronics.

Jenkins (software) Free and open source automation server

Jenkins is a free and open source automation server. Jenkins helps to automate the non-human part of the software development process, with continuous integration and facilitating technical aspects of continuous delivery. It is a server-based system that runs in servlet containers such as Apache Tomcat. It supports version control tools, including AccuRev, CVS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Perforce, TD/OMS, ClearCase and RTC, and can execute Apache Ant, Apache Maven and sbt based projects as well as arbitrary shell scripts and Windows batch commands. The creator of Jenkins is Kohsuke Kawaguchi. Released under the MIT License, Jenkins is free software.

Diffbot is a developer of machine learning and computer vision algorithms and public APIs for extracting data from web pages / web scraping. The company was founded in 2008 at Stanford University and was the first company funded by StartX, Stanford's on-campus venture capital fund.

Demandbase is a targeting and personalization platform for business-to-business (B2B) companies. Marketers can target online ads to companies that fit pre-determined criteria based on attributes and metrics like industry, revenue, customer status, or products purchased. The platform provides services such as managed analytics consulting, target account marketing, and Facebook ad targeting. The company’s patented technology can identify businesses visiting websites through the use of their network IP address, without the use of cookies and in real-time.

AlchemyAPI is an IBM-owned company that uses machine learning to do natural language processing and computer vision for its clients both over the cloud and on-premises.

Headquartered in Tel Aviv with R&D and executive offices in Israel and New York City, Cortica utilizes unsupervised learning methods to recognize and analyze digital images and video. The technology developed by the Cortica team is based on research of the function of the human brain.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube. Alongside a set of management tools, it provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics and machine learning. Registration requires a credit card or bank account details.

Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform developed by Firebase, Inc. in 2011, then acquired by Google in 2014. As of October 2018, the Firebase platform has 18 products, which are used by 1.5 million apps.

Deeplearning4j open source deep learning library

Eclipse Deeplearning4j is a deep learning programming library written for Java and the Java virtual machine (JVM) and a computing framework with wide support for deep learning algorithms. Deeplearning4j includes implementations of the restricted Boltzmann machine, deep belief net, deep autoencoder, stacked denoising autoencoder and recursive neural tensor network, word2vec, doc2vec, and GloVe. These algorithms all include distributed parallel versions that integrate with Apache Hadoop and Spark.

Luminoso, a Cambridge, MA-based text analytics and artificial intelligence company, spun out of the MIT Media Lab and its crowd-sourced Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) project.

ThoughtSpot, Inc. is a technology company that produces business-intelligence analytics search software. The company is based in Sunnyvale, California with additional offices in London, Bangalore, India, Seattle and Tokyo.

Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation providing servers, storage, network, applications and services through a global network of Oracle Corporation managed data centers. The company allows these services to be provisioned on demand over the Internet.

References

  1. Kerschberg, Ben (January 31, 2014). "How Semantria Uses Text Analytics To Infer Business Intelligence from Big Data". Forbes . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Harris, Derrick (November 1, 2013). "The Gigaom guide to deep learning: Who's doing it, and why it matters". GigaOm . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  3. Manning, Ric (2013-10-01). "An Interview with Oleg Rogynskyy". Stephen E. Arnold. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  4. 1 2 3 van Rijmenam, Mark (2013-10-01). "Semantria Is A Sentiment And Text Analytics Service". Datafloq. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
  5. Novet, Jordan (2014-06-15). "Lexalytics buys Semantria, because you gotta be able to analyze text in the cloud". Venture Beat. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
  6. Novet, Jordan (November 22, 2013). "Diffbot and Semantria join to find and parse the important text on the 'Net (exclusive)". VentureBeat . Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  7. Rizza Sta. Ana (November 23, 2013). "Diffbot, Semantria form special partnership to analyze scores of text on the Web". Venture Capital Post. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  8. "Semantria Grows Revenues by 600 Percent Supported by Oracle Eloqua: Oracle Eloqua Helps Cloud-Based Text and Sentiment Analysis Service Automate Sales Funnel and Better Target, Engage and Convert Customers". Market Watch. January 21, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  9. "Semantria Grows Revenues by 600 Percent Supported by Oracle Eloqua". Seeking Alpha. January 21, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  10. "Why I Think Oracle Is Headed For A Higher High". Seeking Alpha. February 11, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  11. Russell, Kyle (2014-07-14). "Lexalytics Acquires Semantria To Bring Sentiment Analysis To The Masses". AOL. Retrieved 2015-05-03.