AI challenge on SemEval2018

August 3, 2017
Anja
Events
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How to detect events in the news and count them? We are running a new AI challenge on SemEval2018: http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2018/index.php?id=tasks Task 5: Counting events and event participants in news articles with a very ‘long tail’. If you are interested and if you want to try this, check out:   https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/17285 http://www.understandinglanguagebymachines.org/semeval-201…/ AI truly tested! More information about this referential quantification task can be found in this handout or at the task website.

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NewsReader at European Data Forum

November 16, 2015
Anja
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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!  

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

November 2, 2015
Anja
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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 …

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NewsReader at ISWC

October 7, 2015
Anja
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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…

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London Hackathon

February 3, 2015
antske
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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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Amsterdam Hackathon Recap

January 27, 2015
Anja
Events
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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…

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