Resnik Featured Speaker at SXSW Tech Discussion

Philip Resnik, professor of linguistics with an appointment in UMIACS, is a featured panelist at the eclectic South by Southwest conference and festival, an annual music, film and emerging technology event held each spring in Austin, Texas.

Resnik will speak on Saturday, March 8 at 11 a.m., joining three other experts in a panel discussion titled “Putting a Real-Time Face on Polling.”

Resnik, who also directs the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab in UMIACS, will discuss his research in computational approaches to social science, including recent research on big data and sentiment analysis. He will also reflect on ReactLabs, a startup he launched in 2012.