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The Computable News project: Research in the Newsroom

Authors:

James R. Curran,

Matthew Honnibal,

David Vadas, and

Candice LoxleyAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '15 Companion: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

May 2015

Pages 903 - 908

https://doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2742009

Published: 18 May 2015 Publication History

Abstract

We report on a four year academic research project to build a natural language processing platform in support of a large media company. The Computable News platform processes news stories, producing a layer of structured data that can be used to build rich applications. We describe the underlying platform and the research tasks that we explored building it. The platform supports a wide range of prototype applications designed to support different newsroom functions. We hope that this qualitative review provides some insight into the challenges involved in this type of project.

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WWW '15 Companion: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

May 2015

1602 pages

ISBN:9781450334730

DOI:10.1145/2740908

General Chairs:
Aldo Gangemi
National Research Council, Italy & Paris 13 University-CNRS, France
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Stefano Leonardi
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Alessandro Panconesi
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

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