On Wednesday, June 10th, the 4th #SciFΥacademy on “Sentiment Analysis” took place at INNOVATHENS in Technopolis City of Athens. It was presented by Mr. Konstantinos Chandrinos and organized by the non-profit IT company SciFY.

For the fourth consecutive month, SciFY Academy was attended by more than 80 people from diverse areas, including academia, startups, and non-profit organizations. Students from technological and administrative schools, journalists, and advertising professionals had the opportunity to attend a two-hour presentation by Mr. Chandrinos and pose their questions.

More specifically, Mr. Chandrinos, CEO of i-sieve Technologies and former Researcher of NCSR “Demokritos”, explained to the audience how computers perceive the world and how it differs from human perception. He also mentioned the interesting statistical findings sentiment analysis can lead to, for example, through “passive” polling, the computer “listens” to what people openly say about events, people, products, policies, etc.

He also explained how sentiment analysis technology can make a decisive contribution to an organization’s reputation management, product or service improvement, crisis identification and management, as well as democratic processes, acting as an advisor in decision-making. Additionally, Mr. Chandrinos discussed how computer intelligence, as depicted in movies or science fiction books, is far from becoming a reality. But it isn’t far from being useful.

Finally, in the open discussion that followed, Mr. Chandrinos answered questions about the practical application of Sentiment Analysis technologies and shared examples from his personal experience.

The event was opened by Mr. Vassilis Salapatas, co-founder and General Manager of SciFY, and Mrs. Elina Makri, co-founder of Oikomedia, who presented the results of the Data Journalism Competition co-organized by SciFY and awarded the competition’s winner.

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