Notes on Modular News
- Reads massive streams of news [English, Spanish, Italian & Dutch]
- Extracts what happened, who was involved, where & when
- Information is represented in the form of billions of Semantic Web triples
- Stored in KnowledgeStore that supports reasoning
- NewsReader technology is used in almost 40 follow-up projects
See also:
https://github.com/newsreader
Summary PDF
Software modules description & links
Development objectives
- Scalable and extensible media monitoring platform
- High-quality / richer tools for analysts & journalists
- Extensible automated knowledge base construction
- Multilingual & cross-lingual capabilities
- Sustainable, maintainable platform & services
See also:
https://github.com/summa-platform
https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/projects/summa/
Extensive project zoo with some interesting highlights:
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Structured Journalism project
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The Juicer
News aggregation and content extraction API -
Online Content Toolkit (OCTO)
Media editing, repurposing & augmentation based on intelligent analysis -
Language Technology
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EuroVOX
Open ecosystem for transcription and translation
[EU-wide collaboration / EBU]
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EuroVOX
Will have as much impact on the news industry as its former strategic partnerships had on the travel industry before.
It's a little difficult to find substantial details.
See also:
Critical reporting on netzpolitik.org