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This is a video of the presentation I will be presenting at the OCE Discovery 09 Student Oral Presentation Competition

I just received word that my paper (co-authored by Dr. Fei Song) has been accepted to the International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (http://www.icmlc.com) which will take place July 12-15, 2009 in Baoding, Hebei, China.

Here is the abstract:

Title
Improving Sentiment Analysis with Part-of-Speech Weighting

Abstract
Sentiment Analysis is concerned with classifying the opinions in a piece of text. We present a term weighting scheme which takes into account Part-of-Speech categories to improve machine learning-based classification of sentiment in product reviews. We experimentally find optimal strengths for each Part-of-Speech category and show that using this weighting method improves overall sentiment classification.

The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) hold a yearly conference called Discovery to showcase new technologies. A component of the conference is the Student Oral Presentation Competition, and I have been selected as a competitor. I will be speaking about the technology I am researching (Sentiment Analysis). It is a 5-minute talk focusing on industry need for my research.

This is a great event and a great opportunity and I'm really looking forward to it. More information about the event can be found that the OCE Discovery website or at the OCE website.