NewsReader: recording history from daily news streams

Piek Vossen, German Rigau, Luciano Serafini, Pim Stouten, Francis Irving, Willem Van Hage


Abstract
The European project NewsReader develops technology to process daily news streams in 4 languages, extracting what happened, when, where and who was involved. NewsReader does not just read a single newspaper but massive amounts of news coming from thousands of sources. It compares the results across sources to complement information and determine where they disagree. Furthermore, it merges news of today with previous news, creating a long-term history rather than separate events. The result is stored in a KnowledgeStore, that cumulates information over time, producing an extremely large knowledge graph that is visualized using new techniques to provide more comprehensive access. We present the first version of the system and the results of processing first batches of data.
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L14-1374
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
Year:
2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2000–2007
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/436_Paper.pdf
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Piek Vossen, German Rigau, Luciano Serafini, Pim Stouten, Francis Irving, and Willem Van Hage. 2014. NewsReader: recording history from daily news streams. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 2000–2007, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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NewsReader: recording history from daily news streams (Vossen et al., LREC 2014)
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