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Spin-off projects NewsReader in Spinoza-project Vossen

October 29, 2013
Anja
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  NWO Spinoza laureate 2013 – Piek Vossen – announced his plans for the 2.5 million euros NWO Spinoza Prize he has received. “Understanding of Language by Machines – an escape from the world of language” – Spinoza prize project Vossen: SPI 30-673 (2014–2019)   The goal of the Spinoza project “Understanding of language by machines” (ULM) is to develop computer models that can assign deeper meaning to language that approximates human understanding and to use these models to automatically read and understand text.…

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NWR Presence at ISWC 2013

October 19, 2013
Anja
Events, Presentations
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Next week NWR will be represented at ISWC 2013 by Luciano Serafini, Willem Robert van Hage, Thomas Ploeger and Marieke van Erp. Your greatest chances of running into these NWR team members will be at the following sessions: On Monday: Marieke is co-organising the Linked Science workshop, which this year has a special focus on reproducibility, scientific investigations and experiments. Don’t miss out on Carole Goble‘s keynote there! On Monday afternoon Marieke and Willem are co-organising the DeRiVE 2013 workshop,…

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NWR Project Meeting

October 11, 2013
Anja
Meetings
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Last week the NewsReader team got together in Trento for a face-to-face meeting. During this meeting, we discussed the current state of the project and made detailed plans for the coming months. While a lot of things can be done through discussions via email and Skype, getting together every now and then and being able to look at each other’s screens and drawing things on the flip-over is super helpful  to get through some more complex issues and brainstorm about…

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User Workflow Mapping at Dutch House of Representatives

October 9, 2013
Anja
Events, Meetings
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NewsReader is about helping information professionals make sense of the huge amounts of daily news streams. To find out how to help professionals the most, it is important to know what types of information they need, how they search for it and what the bottlenecks in current technology are. Before the summer, the NewsReader team got in touch with the Department of Information services at the Dutch House of Representatives to see whether NewsReader could be useful to them. Last week, we…

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