Events

Events, Presentations

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,…

User Workflow Mapping at Dutch House of Representatives

October 9, 2013

Events, Meetings

NewsReader is about helping information professionals make sense of the huge amounts of daily news streams. To find out how to help professionals the most, it is important to know what types of information they need, how they search for it and what the bottlenecks in current technology are. Before the summer, the NewsReader team got in touch with the Department of Information services at the Dutch House of Representatives to see whether NewsReader could be useful to them. Last week, we…

NWR @the Dutch House of Representatives

October 4, 2013

NWR’s favourite ACL papers

August 29, 2013

Several NewsReader members attended ACL 2013 to present their own work [1] [2] [3] and to see what other colleagues in the field are working on. Here is a small selection of papers that are related to the NewsReader project and from which we are drawing inspiration for the next steps in our project. Recognizing Identical Events with Graph Kernels Goran Glavaš and Jan Šnajder How to detect whether two event mentions refer to the same event is still an…

Piek Vossen @ Dutch Radio 1 (27.07.2013)

July 23, 2013

Radio interview Piek Vossen on NewsReader and Spinoza Price @ national Dutch Radio 1: “Dit is de Dag”, Tuesday July 23, 2013 now ONLINE (in Dutch).

FBK Workshop “Perspectives on Events”

July 18, 2013

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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…

NWR at OpeNER hackathon

July 3, 2013

Yesterday, several NWR team members participated in the Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Big Data Hackathon organised by our colleagues from the OpeNER project. During this hackathon, some 50 participants (amongst others developers, linguists, designers and historians) got together to put current state-of-the-art language technology through a little stress test in some actual use cases. The app ideas that the different teams came up with varied from analysing hotel reviews and visualising the results in different ways, to mining…

CfP: Detection, Representation and Exploitation of Events on the Semantic Web (DeRiVE 2013)

May 23, 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…

Piek Vossen to present NewsReader @ CCCT Seminar

May 22, 2013

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