(Vienna, 4 November 2008). The latest analyses of the US Election 2008 Web Monitor shed light on fundamental differences in the online media coverage about the Democratic and Republican candidates. In the home stretch of the campaign, Barack Obama manages to defend his lead by capturing 42% of media attention (John McCain: 35%).

From the 20th to 25th of July, Johannes Liegl and Stefan Gindl attended the 18th European Conference for Artificial Intelligence (ECAI). This conference takes place every other year and brings together Europe's Artificial Intelligence research community. This year the conference was held in Patras (Greece) and it covered the following topics:

Sentiment Detection is one of the research fields of the RAVEN project. It is a sub area of text mining and attempts to automatically extract the mood or sentiment expressed by an author of a written text. Armed with such means, it is easy for potential users - private enterprises, for example - to track the sentiment of the online community towards their brands and, if necessary, to adapt their marketing strategies.