Keynote Speaker '16

Bei Yu is a Katchmar-Wilhelm Associate Professor of Information Studies at Syracuse University. Before joining SU she was a postdoctoral fellow at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She received her PhD in Library and Information Science in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science. Her research focuses on text mining, especially sentiment classification and opinion mining, for social science research and digital humanities. Bei Yu has given invited talks on the analysis of language, gender, and opinion differences in political speeches and documents. In 2009 she was the co-chair of the First International Workshop on Topic-Sentiment Analysis for Mass Opinion Measurement in Hong Kong, organized in conjunction with the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.