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London Hackathon

Which cars crash most? Which automobile companies had to recall their cars over the last ten years and how does current news relate to news in the financial automobile industry domain from the last ten years? On Friday 30 2015 three teams tried to answer these questions during the NewsReader Hack Day in London. At the foot of the Big Ben (to be precise, at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), participants explored NewsReader’s analyses of 1.3 million articles about…

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KnowledgeStore Web-site

Visit the KnwoledgeStore web-site (http://knowledgestore.fbk.eu/), now publicly accessible!! You can access source and binary code (released under the terms of the Apache Licence v 2.0), documentation, background knowledge datasets, demos, and publications.

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NewsReader started the processing of news today!

This week NewsReader installed their news processing software as virtual machines on different platforms in Amsterdam, San Sebastian and Trento to process 66,000 news articles on the car industry. The first batch of news is being processed. Many more to follow….   Follow this site to learn about the progress and more importantly… what will come out of it. Two NewsReader VMs running on the HPcloud of Sara in Amsterdam, processing news….

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Piek Vossen to present NewsReader @ CCCT Seminar

On Friday May 24, 2013 Piek Vossen will give a talk titled “Do big data hide or reveal stories? Processing large streams of news in the NewsReader project” at the Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT), University of Amsterdam. The full programme can be found here, and this is the abstract of his talk: Do big data hide or reveal stories? Processing large streams of news in the NewsReader project Piek Vossen Professor Computational Lexicology at VU University Amsterdam The FP7 project NewsReader…

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Presentation Keynote Talk Vossen @ NIAS online

Piek Vossen: Invited keynote speaker on “Do big data hide or reveal stories? Recording history in the NewsReader project” at the workshop “Computational Humanities, reference cultures and identity formation”, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar, the Netherlands, April 24-26, 2013.

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