The relationship between news articles and the behaviour of the stock market has received steady interest by the scientific research community over the last 40 years. With the emergence of effective text analysis technology, and recently with the onset of semantic processing, efforts to capture this relationship have been intensified with (among many others) the following interesting results.
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Read moreMay 11, 2009
Advanced Trading News publishes article about ViewerPro
Semlab’s Project Manager Thomas Dohmen was interviewed for a news article last week by Cristina McEachern of the influential Advanced Trading News website.
The article focusses on the latest ViewerPro release, which has a number of important improvements, such as the user interface, duplicate event detection, alerts, advanced semantic statistics, financial terms ontology updates, Reuters NewsScope and Dow Jones integration, improved web scrapers and connection to stock ticker data.
The news has been well received by trader organisations worldwide.
The full article can be read at: Advanced Trading
April 28, 2009
ViewerPro live demo’s successfully received at TradeTech 2009
At the TradeTech 2009 in Paris, Viewerpro was demonstrated live to leading news providers and buy- and sell side firms from the Equity Trading & Technology industry. The live demonstrations were well received and showed the added value of ViewerPro’s news analysis capabilities.
The ViewerPro platform enables buy side users to be alerted about relevant news impacts, generated from disparate feeds from the electronic distribution platforms.
For algorithmic traders there is the possibility to incorporate ViewerPro’s automatic news impact assessment into trading strategies.
April 22, 2009
ViewerPro Core
ViewerPro Core provides a software solution that takes you straight to the ‘core’ of ViewerPro’s news interpretation technology. Viewerpro Core enables you to benefit from ViewerPro’s semantic analysis technology without having to be involved with the modelling of business logic or administrator tasks.
The new Core-version of the ViewerPro program offers an elegantly simplified viewer for keeping up to date with financial news impacts on the selected equity-portfolios of your preference, without any of the more advanced modeling tools. This makes ViewerPro Core easy to use and ideal for your customers that are in need of reliable and real-time news impact evaluation.
April 9, 2009
ViewerPro Custom Projects
ViewerPro is a highly flexible and adaptable platform and can be adjusted to accommodate most news impact analysis scenarios. Any specific client desires are analysed by our experts and implemented in a bilateral project in which our customer communicates directly to the ViewerPro development team. This ensures a clear understanding of our customers’ wishes and a fast realization of the required functionality.
Examples of recent projects are the deployment of clients proprietary knowledge repositories for further enhancement of the news analysis and front end user interface integration into an existing trading environment.
March 26, 2009
ViewerPro for early health risk warning
SemLab is currently proposing a joint research effort, backed by the European Community to deploy their leading event extraction platform ViewerPro in the health risk domain.
SemLab will be leading a consortium of top level technology companies and academia to realise the next level in media monitoring. This project will include speech-to-text functionality, full support for multilinguality, self-learning event extraction and simulation-based event risk assessment.