Alpha Reporter

When: June 28-30, 2017 Where: Millennium Hotel London Mayfair, 44 Grosvenor Square, London W1K 2HP Organiser: Unicom Artificial intelligence (AI)  and machine learning have emerged as a central aspect of analytics applied to multiple domains. AI and machine learning, pattern classifiers and natural language processing (NLP) underpin sentiment analysis (SA). SA is a technology that makes rapid assessment of the sentiments expressed in news releases as well as other media sources such as Twitter and blogs. The conference addresses and explains how to extract sentiment from these multiple sources of information and showcases the advances that have taken place in the field of financial innovation. The focus is on the latest research and includes presentations by leading subject experts from all over the world, as well as a number of applications/case studies. Topics covered include: pattern classifiers, NLP and AI applied to data, text, and multi-media; sentiment scores combined with neo-classical models of finance; financial analytics underpinned by qualitative and quantitative methods; predictive and normative analysis applied to finance; and applications in financial markets. The conference is complemented by a series of workshops: log optimal growth and Kelly Strategy, June 26, 2017; sentiment extraction and applications for financial prediction, June 27, 2017; and novel data sources and contents for financial markets, June 30, 2017.