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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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!

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