On June 8, 2016, University American College Skopje had the honor to host a lecture entitled: “Sentiment Analysis on Twitter: a SemEval Perspective”, by Dr. Preslav Ivanov Nakov, a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU.
The aim of the lecture was to present the activities of the SemEval group, the evolution of the contest, and some of the most effective strategies implemented by the best teams.
Also, as a treat for the audience, after presenting what is considered to be a state-of-the-art in the field of computer linguistics, Dr. Nakov concluded the lecture with a brief exercise. Namely, the participants could vote on whether some news (short text) were generated by a sophisticated robot or written by a person.