September 22, 2010
SemLab has been invited to give a pitch at the PICNIC event’s pitch night. Ten selected companies will present their product or service to a panel of experts, who will offer personalized recommendations to each company. For both participants and the audience, this will be an exciting night focused on learning, growth and innovation.
SemLab will present their ViewerPro semantic analysis platform.
For more information: PICNIC pitch night
August 25, 2010
ViewerPro, Semlab’s news flow algorithms and analytic suite, is now connected to Thomson Reuters Market Data Systems (RMDS). In order to interact and develop emerging news analysis tools, users can utilize a fully integrated RMDS news flow algo, based on SemLab’s superior semantic web technology.
For more information: Reuters RMDS website
August 23, 2010
Part of the SOLIM project’s research results have been submitted as a research paper entitled “The use of OWL for Spatial Knowledge based Applications” in the Semantic Web journal.
The paper was written by representatives of SemLab, Tilde, Picsearch and AGMLab. In this paper it is demonstrated that the use of OWL and spatial reasoning tools – despite shortcomings – enables effective storage of, and reasoning with spatial information by use of a hybrid solution. The utility of this solution will be illustrated by its application in two diverse domains; automatic processing of textual information and querying of graphical information, in machine translation and image searching applications.
August 20, 2010
The Solim project for spatial reasoning has entered the last phase, in which the technology developed will be implemented into two POC applications for evaluation. The two applications that will utilise the spatial reasoning technology are Picsearch’s Image Searching system and Tilde’s Machine Translation system.
May 25, 2010
The NORM project has now officially started. NORM, short for News Optimised Risk management, is a project commissioned by the European Union to research the effects of financial news on market risk predictions. In order to study this, the project will use SemLab’s ViewerPro system for automated semantic news analysis, together with state of the art risk modelling techniques.
May 22, 2010
In the coming months Semlab’s ViewerPro system for automated semantic analysis of financial news, will be used by several international financial organisations in Japan, the USA, France, Germany, the U.K and the Netherlands.
ViewerPro processes incoming financial news events and determined the impact of messages on equity portfolios.
February 18, 2010
ViewerPro was already connected to news sources such as Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones and various RSS feeds, and has now expanded by covering multiple European stock exchanges.
ViewerPro now incorporates the FTSE AllShare index (London), the AEX (Amsterdam), BEL20 (Brussels), DAX30 (Frankfurt) and the CAC40 (Paris), thereby automatically identifying news events for companies within the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France.
In the nearby future, we will expand further to for example south European stock exchanges.
January 28, 2010
The finalised copies of the ViewerPro Client evaluation CD are ready to be handed out at the next few meetings that Semlab will attend.
This promotional CD contains a fully functional trial version of the ViewerPro client for financial news analysis, intended for evaluation purposes. This trial includes access to the live DowJones Newswire feed and includes installers for Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms.
January 20, 2010
The European Union has approved our NORM proposal. Semlab and a consortium of international partners will start researching News Optimised Risk Management.
In today’s chaotic financial climate, systems for predicting market behaviour and attitudes of financial professionals are under scrutiny. Current market risk assessment characteristics disregard market information that is available from additional sources like, for example, financial news. There are whole new possibilities for producing meaningful market behaviour models by incorporating behavioural and quantitative finance, using the latest techniques and powerful modelling tools. The prevailing market environment can (to some extent) be captured by key innovative techniques of news analytics that quantify news sentiments. The emergence and impact of such behavioural finance is illustrated by the 4-5 Nobel Prizes for Economics awarded in this field in recent years.
This project aims to enhance market risk assessment metrics by using semantically analysed news-based information. This will compensate for inflexibility of existing models with regard to strong market fluctuations or market instability and give more dynamic, more reliable market risk estimation.
November 11, 2009
This week, Semlab attended the ‘Forum on News Analytics applied to Trading, Fund Management and Risk Control’, at Canary Wharf in London.
Our director of research, Dr. Mark Vreijling, gave a lecture on Semlab’s cutting edge news analytics platform ViewerPro, and the prospects of using semantic news analysis for Trading and Risk Control.
Financial news contains market information that is potentially useful for trading and risk assessment. Most financial companies still have no way of automatically analysing news and information is either missed or takes long to process. With semantic analysis platforms like ViewerPro, no news is missed and desisions can be made much quicker.
For more information: Forum on News Analytics
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