Bringing Newsworthiness into the 21st Century
Transcript of Bringing Newsworthiness into the 21st Century
ELIS – Multimedia Lab
Tom De Nies,
Evelien D'Heer, Sam Coppens, Davy Van Deursen,
Erik Mannens, Steve Paulussen and Rik Van De Walle
Web of Linked Entities @ ISWC 2012
November 11th, Boston, USA
Bringing Newsworthiness into the 21st Century
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Digital Information Overflow
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Joint Effort
Social Lab
(MICT) Multimedia Lab
News
Criteria Semantic Web
Manual
Analysis Automatically
Assisted Analysis
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Presenting AVALON:
Automatic Value Assessment of News
Newsworthiness, revisited
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Frequency Unexpectedness Recency
Continuity Eliteness Showbiz/TV
Celebrities Negativity Significance
Relevance Facticity Competition
News Criteria
Political Economical Cultural Public Technological
Cultural Geographical Social
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Complex Mapping
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Analysis Methods N
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News
Article
Similarity Analysis
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Reader targeting
Social Media
Formatting
Topic Detection
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Saves hours of scanning through related publications
Linked to Web, so always up to date
Enables news analysts to test traditional methods in current media landscape
Intended as assisting tool, not as replacement
Advantages
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Take it to the real journalists!
Next Steps