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Hackathon NewsReader Amsterdam (Jan.21, 2015)

December 5, 2014
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Porsches to Pizza – Hack 6,000,000 automotive news articles #NewsReader The global automotive industry has a value of the order of $1 trillion annually. The industry comprises a massive network of suppliers, manufacturers, advertisers, marketeers and journalists.  Attracting and supporting the industry is a significant goal of industrial policy. On January 21st we’re running an event which should be of interest if :- You’re a data journalist on an automotive desk; You’re an analyst sifting daily news looking for information…

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NWR Organises SemEval 2015 Task 4: TimeLines

October 8, 2014
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Thinking beyond event extraction is at the heart of the research being carried out at NewsReader. To assess and advance the state of the art in ordering events, we are organising a SemEval shared task around creating TimeLines. Specifically, SemEval-2015 Task 4: TimeLine: Cross-Document Event Ordering (pilot task). We have made available a set of annotated documents with associated events and timelines for participants to develop a temporal event ordering system on. During the SemEval evaluation period (5 – 20 December 2014), we…

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Computational Models of Narrative (CMN’14)

August 10, 2014
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Last week the 2014 Workshop Computational Models of Narrative took place in Quebec City, Canada and Marieke was there to present and discuss ideas for shaping the NewsReader narratives. This year’s workshop had a special focus on Neuroscience, but really all sorts of domains got covered in the three day workshop. Whilst at first some of the topics seemed quite far from NewsReader (after all, it is rather unlikely that we will put people in fMRI scanners to measure their appreciation of…

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NWR at LREC2014

May 22, 2014
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We are happy to announce the presence of several NewsReader team members at LREC2014. They will give updates on NewsReader during the following sessions: May 26: 09:30 – 10:00: Antske Fokkens, Aitor Soroa, Zuhaitz Beloki, Niels Ockeloen, Piek Vossen, German Rigau and Willem Robert van Hage. NAF and GAF: Linking Linguistic Annotations (10th Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation, Rima B)  [paper] [slides] May 27: 09:00 – 10:00: Piek Vossen – Keynote 3rd Workshop on Linked Data…

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Come hack with NewsReader!

April 16, 2014
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Are you interested in getting your hands dirty with the NewsReader technology? Are you interested in finding out what the NewsReader data enrichments can do for your questions? Are you a data journalist, hacker, or visualisation specialist? Are you up for building a visualisation or  app in a day? Come join us for the first NewsReader hackathon on June 10 in London! As a special theme for this hackathon we have chosen the football World Cup. We will provide information…

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Call for Papers Semantic Web and Information Extraction

April 9, 2014
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If you have some interesting work on the intersection of semantic web and information extraction, consider submitting to SWAIE: **************************************************************** Second call for papers SWAIE 2014: Semantic Web and Information Extraction http://swaie2014.wordpress.com 24th August 2014 Full-day workshop in conjunction with COLING 2014 Submission Deadline: 2 May 2014, 23:59 Hawaii Time **************************************************************** INTRODUCTION There is a vast wealth of information available in textual format that the Semantic Web cannot yet tap into: 80% of data on the Web and on internal…

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NewsReader at CLIN24

February 2, 2014
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On Friday 17 January NWR team member Marieke van Erp presented work on entity recognition and disambiguation at CLIN24. This work is a collaboration with researchers from EURECOM and Università degli studi di Torino. Slides are available through slideshare. Evaluating Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation in News and Tweets from Marieke van Erp

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