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See the announcement on the VU Faculty of Humanities website (Dutch).

NewsReader at European Data Forum

November 16, 2015

Come check out the NewsReader stand at European Data Forum today and tomorrow. At the stand you can see our demos, pick up a brochure, find out more about our upcoming events and grab a bag of our limited edition NewsReader winegums!

Workshop and Hackathon November 2015: Car Wars – Industrial Heroes Going Down Fighting

November 2, 2015

On 24 and 25 November 2015, we will showcase the NewsReader project and invite you to come explore our technology and its results yourself during our NewsReader Workshop and Hackathon. Our dataset encompasses 12 years of news charting the struggle of automotive players to rule the global market, to satisfy the expectations of the shareholders, and their suffering from the financial crisis and new economies: industrial heroes going down! The Workshop Tuesday 24 November 2015, 14:00 – 18:00 Amsterdam Public Library …

NewsReader at ISWC

October 7, 2015

Events, Presentations

With Semantic Web technology being a huge part of NewsReader, it is no wonder that we will showcase some of our technology at the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) next week in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Here’s a roundup of the sessions in which NewsReader is involved. Sunday 11 October The third NLP&DBpedia workshop (location: RBC 91): This workshop combines the two main themes in NewsReader, namely Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web. NewsReader team member Marieke van Erp is a co-organiser of this workshop…

Amsterdam Hackathon Recap

January 27, 2015

On January 21st, the second NewsReader hackathon and the first part of our Y2 user evaluation took place at the Amsterdam Public Library. For the hackathon, around 30 participants from research groups, as well as companies, public institutions and even some students came to the 6th floor of the Amsterdam Public Library. The participants formed teams of varying size resulting in 8 presentations at the end of the day. The NewsReader team was super happy to see so many different…

Diving into the NewsReader data

January 5, 2015

What could you do to unlock the potential of six million automotive news articles? Together with the rest of the NewsReader consortium, SynerScope will organize two hackathons where you can showcase your skills. The hackathons will take place the 21st and the 30th of January in Amsterdam and London respectively. Participating hackers will be able to explore data extracted from more than six million news articles relating to the global automotive industry. These news articles have been processed in the…

More than a waste paper bin: the data for From Porsches to Pizza

December 18, 2014

A car metaphor seems in place to start: the NewsReader engine is a true gas guzzler, with an extreme thirst for raw data. We quenched this thirst by selecting and delivering several millions of news articles covering the global automotive industry for the NewsReader infrastructure to process and enrich. A big chunk of this ‘NewsReaderised’ data set will be used for the hackathons in Amsterdam and London, late January. Why automotive? Not because all NewsReader contributors are car nuts (some…

The Technology Behind “From Porsches to Pizza”

December 11, 2014

On 21 and 30 January 2015, the NewsReader team will organise hackathons in Amsterdam and London, respectively. During these hackathons, participants will get to explore information that was extracted from several millions of news articles about the global automotive industry using the NewsReader pipeline. In this blog post, we’ll explain the technology behind the NewsReader pipeline to give you an idea of the types of information you can find in this dataset. The data processing pipeline is made up of…

Hackathon NewsReader London (Jan. 30, 2015)

December 5, 2014