NewsReader workshop/hackathon announcement on VU Faculty of Humanities website (Dutch)
See the announcement on the VU Faculty of Humanities website (Dutch).
Computational Models of Narrative (CMN’14)
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…
NWR Presence at ISWC 2013
Next week NWR will be represented at ISWC 2013 by Luciano Serafini, Willem Robert van Hage, Thomas Ploeger and Marieke van Erp. Your greatest chances of running into these NWR team members will be at the following sessions: On Monday: Marieke is co-organising the Linked Science workshop, which this year has a special focus on reproducibility, scientific investigations and experiments. Don’t miss out on Carole Goble‘s keynote there! On Monday afternoon Marieke and Willem are co-organising the DeRiVE 2013 workshop,…
FBK Workshop “Perspectives on Events”
Since one of the goals of NewsReader is to extract information on events from large streams of news and build structured indexes for decision making in the financial and economical domain, it is crucial to define what an event is. Although the notion of event has long been central for both modeling the semantics of natural language as well as reasoning in goal-driven tasks in artificial intelligence, the research community has yet to achieve a consensus on what is an…
Slides “From Events to Stories: Different ways of structuring the same bag of events over time”
The slides of Marieke van Erp’s presentation at the Soeterbeeck eHumanities workshop are now online on slideshare.
First NewsReader publication: GAF: Grounded Annotation Framework
At NewsReader we’ve been working hard since the kick-off to set up the infrastructure for the project. One of the most important things that we needed to get done as soon as possible was to agree on an annotation format, so we can get going on building an evaluation data set. The result of close collaboration between the research partners resulted in the Grounded Annotation Framework (GAF). This framework consists of two layers, linguistic layer, and a semantic layer, to…
CfP: Detection, Representation and Exploitation of Events on the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2013)
Events are at the heart of many of our daily information sources, being microposts, newswire, calendar information or sensor data. For detecting, representing and exploiting events in these sources, different research communities are each trying to resolve a small part of this puzzle. The goal of this workshop is to bring together those different areas in the recent surge of research on the use of events as a key concept for representing and organising knowledge on the Web. The workshop…
CfP: Semantic Web and Information Extraction Workshop (SWAIE 2013)
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 corporate intranets is unstructured, hence analysing and structuring the data – social analytics and next generation analytics – is a large and growing endeavour. The goal of the 1st workshop on Semantic Web and Information Extraction is to bring researchers from the fields of Information Extraction and the Semantic Web together to…