Italian newspaper – La stampa 

L'esito del referendum britannico per la Brexit era prevedibile, a dispetto di exit poll e opinion poll che fino alle 02.00 del 24 giugno davano i «Remain» in testa di due punti sui «Leave». A conoscere in anticipo il risultato che ha spiazzato sondaggisti e Borse è stato un team del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica dell'Università di Trento, specializzato in Big Data.

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Following the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union on 23 June 2016, the EU-funded SENSEI project has revealed that it accurately predicted the result of the referendum by analysing 6 million social media conversations in the weeks preceding the vote.

The SENSEI (Making Sense of Human-Human Conversation Data) project aims to make sense of the millions of blog posts and social media conversations that take place every day…

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On 19/09/2016 a dissemination event called “Language Technology Meets Social Media Conversation in the News” (see: www.meetup.com/textanalytics/events/233885011/) was held in central London at the British Computer Society. Invited were media professionals from various media organisations/media units across the UK and, in addition, members of the London Text Analytics meet up group. The event was organised by USFD and UESSEX (Kruschwitz). Presentations were made by project members from USFD (Gaizauskas, Hepple, Foster) and Websys (Poch) covering SENSEI work on summarisation and on the Brexit poll predictions. In addition, a lively round table discussion was held in which participants at the event as well as the presenters were able to share views on the current state of play with respect to user-generated content in the news as well as future directions. Around 35 people attended, including representatives from the traditional content-generating media organisations (Bloomberg, Telegraph Media Group), media monitoring, personalisation and analysis organizations (Signal Media, Watching America, Lumi News, eRevalue, etc.), management consultancy companies (A.T. Kearney), government (UK Government Digital Service) and universities (King's College London, University of Regina (Canada)).

The Sensei team has participated  in the international “E Commerce Customer Experience” in September in Paris, an event with over 500 companies, 4 specialized exhibition areas and a Start-Up Village.

The Sensei industrial partner Teleperformance had a booth dedicated to the Sensei Project, and Hugo Zaragoza (Websays) and Vincenzo Giliberti (Teleperformance) held a very successful workshop on  “Social Media + Machine Learning = A new Customer Care Experience. The Sensei Project.”.

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Monitoring Brexit – The Story

In the month preceding the referendum date, SENSEI’s system monitored millions of social media conversations to predict the outcome of the referendum.
Every day, more than 300 000 posts across multilingual media sources on the topic of the UK EU Referendum are captured and automatically analysed by the SENSEI technology. 
Most exit polls were showing confidence the REMAIN side would prevail. In contrast, the SENSEI system hit with very high accuracy the final outcome.

Monitoring BREXIT – What Happened
 

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Press Release (English)

Press Release (Italian)

Interview (Italian) at Radio 24 (Italian Radio) about SENSEI monitoring Brexit Referendum

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