T.R. FITZ-GIBBON , T.R. Fitz-Gibbon joined Networked Insights (NI) in 2008 as Senior Research and Development Engineer. Now Chief Scientist, Mr. Fitz-Gibbon designs the Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that drive NI's software. His scientific passion lies in two areas of AI: neural networks and genetic algorithms. Mr. Fitz-Gibbon is particularly interested in biological examples of intelligence, defining AI as, "methods of computer programming inspired by nature."
T.R. FITZ-GIBBON

Are you ready for Semantic Analysis?

August 25, 2011

Step one was getting brands to monitor social media channels for mentions. Step two was realizing that just tracking the number of times a brand was mentioned, which led to [...]

Is It Time To Reconsider Sentiment Scoring?

August 10, 2011

In a recent blog post called The Problem with Automated Sentiment Analysis from Fresh Networks, a social media agency, they evaluated a few sentiment tools and their results are quite [...]

Why Semantic Analysis Trumps Sentiment Analysis

May 4, 2011

For years, sentiment has been a widely used measure of how customers view a company’s products and services. But sentiment analysis has inherent flaws. First is what it cannot tell [...]

Social Media Analytics, Humans vs. Machines

July 1, 2009

The fine folks at www.research-live.com recently posted an email debate titled “Tracking online word-of-mouth: The people vs machines debate.” This debate featured Mike Daniels of Report International arguing the pro-human [...]

Does monitoring provide the confidence and omniscience you need?

June 1, 2009

So, you want to monitor a brand, or many brands. You want to know everything that is being said about your brand online, no matter who is saying it or [...]