Semantria is owned by

sentiment analysis Sentiment analysis (also known as opinion mining or emotion AI) is the use of natural language processing, text analysis, computational linguistics, and biometrics to systematically identify, extract, quantify, and study affective states and subjec ...

company

Lexalytics Lexalytics, Inc. provides sentiment and intent analysis to an array of companies using SaaS and cloud based technology. Salience 6, the engine behind Lexalytics, was built as an on-premises, multi-lingual text analysis engine. It is leased to ot ...

, from which it was spun out in 2011. Semantria offers

text analysis Content analysis is the study of documents and communication artifacts, which might be texts of various formats, pictures, audio or video. Social scientists use content analysis to examine patterns in communication in a replicable and systematic ...

via

API An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how ...

and Excel plugin. It differs from Lexalytics in that it is offered via API and Excel plugin, and in that it incorporates a bigger knowledge base and uses deep learning.

History

Semantria was founded by in February 2011 in an attempt to bring

to a larger audience. Its goal was to make the process accessible for under $1,000 USD in less than three minutes. Semantria continues to support the largest number of languages by any single

SaaS Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software. SaaS is co ...

sentiment analysis vendor. This ambitious start led to Semantria receiving a five star rating fro
Tech World Australia
a year after it was founded. This early success lead the acquisition of several important accounts in retail, market research, consumer reviews and social media marketing. Semantria continued successfully despite never accepting venture funding. In November 2013, Semantria announced a partnership with

Diffbot Diffbot is a developer of machine learning and computer vision algorithms and public APIs for extracting data from web pages / web scraping to create a knowledge base. The company has gained interest from its application of computer visio ...

: Diffbot would undertake the task of identifying the most important passages of a document and Semantria would then perform text analysis using those passages. According to a January 2014 press release, Semantria grew its revenues by 600% supported by the

Oracle Eloqua An oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions, most notably including precognition of the future, inspired by deities. As such, it is a form of divination. Description The word '' ...

platform. Later that year, in the summer of 2014, Lexalytics acquired Semantria for around $10 million USD.

Media coverage

In November 2013,

GigaOm Gigaom is a technology focused analyst firm and media company. The company evolved from a blog which offered news, analysis, and opinions on startup companies, emerging technologies, and other technology related topics. It was started by Om Mali ...

listed Semantria as one of the top startups using deep learning, along with

AlchemyAPI AlchemyAPI was a software company in the field of machine learning. Its technology employed deep learning for various applications in natural language processing, such as semantic text analysis and sentiment analysis, as well as computer vision. ...

Cortica Headquartered in Tel Aviv Cortica utilizes unsupervised learning methods to recognize and analyze digital images and video. The technology developed by the Cortica team is based on research of the function of the human brain. Company Founding C ...

, and Ersatz.

References

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