KnowledgeStore Demonstration Video
A demonstration video of the KnowledgeStore “in action” has been added in the Results/Demos section.
NWR at LREC2014
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…
Come hack with NewsReader!
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…
Call for Papers Semantic Web and Information Extraction
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…
NewsReader project at ICTDays 2014
The NewsReader project has been presented by Paramita Mirza from FBK in a poster session during the ICT Days 2014 in Trento. More on the ICT days program here.
NWR on the ScraperWiki blog
Our project partner ScraperWiki keeps a blog and recently team member Ian Hopkinson took the time to write up an overview of the project and its first year. Click through for his post ‘NewsReader – one year on‘.
Greetings from Luxembourg
Here is the NewsReader team making the final preparations for the project’s 1st year review that will take place tomorrow.
NewsReader at CLIN24
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
Happy 2014 from the NWR team!
The first year of NWR is coming to a close and we definitely had a good year. We started off a bit bumpy due to some administrative delays, but we have caught up: our pipeline is up and running, we are analysing the results from the first batch of data processed, we wrote a bunch of well-received papers, gave lots of presentations, and received a grant for additional computing power and expertise. Our agendas for 2014 are already filling up…