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News flash (MEDIA, February 11, 2012): I was really pleased to be included among those quoted in discussions by the Wall Street Journal's "Numbers Guy", Carl Bialik, about mining Twitter for public opinion, including both the print column and the accompanying blog post.

News flash (MEDIA, January 31, 2012): I had great fun guesting on the Kojo Nnamdi show on WAMU 88.5 in Washington DC, talking about New Frontiers in Political Polling: Social Media and "Sentiment Analysis". We discussed computational analysis of social media in the context of political campaigns, which was also the topic of a recent posting I did on Language Log called #CompuPolitics; we also briefly discussed the React Labs project, in which collaborators and I are developing a smartphone app for large scale, real-time collection of people's responses during live events like political debates.

News flash (January 26, 2012): Two upcoming talks in cool places, in March. One is a plenary lecture at the 2012 American Association for Applied Linguistics conference, entitled The Linguistics of Spin: A Computational Linguist's Forays into Social Science The other is a slot at South By Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), on EHRs, NLP and the Future of Clinical Narrative.

News flash (November 7, 2011): I'm in the Bay Area to give a talk today at Google on crowdsourcing and translation, to kick off a new Google-funded collaboration involving me, Ben Bederson, and Chris Callison-Burch that we're calling "Translate the World". Tomorrow I will be giving the keynote talk at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium, a technology/business event focused on, yes, sentiment analysis.

News flash (MEDIA, November 3, 2011): Interviewed by New Scientist for their story on Siri.

News flash (MEDIA, June 28, 2011): Nice mention of my work with Ben Bederson and students on monolingual translation crowdsourcing in Jim Giles, New Scientist, Issue 2818, The man-machine: Harnessing humans in a hive mind.

News flash (June 28, 2011): I've just finished two invited talks on "Computer Assisted Coding and Beyond: An Academic's Adventures with Clinical Natural Language Processing in the Real World", one at the ACL/HLT 2011 BioNLP Workshop, and the other at the National Library of Medicine.

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