HERCULE AI PLATFORM FOR BIG DATA

JOURNALISM

December 13, 2017

Georgi Georgiev, Ph.D.Andrey Tagarev

What is Hercule?

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• uses AI to understand Events, People, Locations, Organisations, Dates, and Money amounts in social media posts, news, and broadcast;

• is designed to work with Big Data sources such as YouTube, Tweeter, and multiple news sources;

• provides access to background knowledge and open data: DBPedia, WikiData, GeoNames, government open data and more;

• will provide scalable search and filter functionality based on concept and faceted search;

Hercule as an AI and Big Data Platform:

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• lets journalists define threads by setting simple keywords;•automatically defines stories of similar tweets, news and

videos;•provides a dashboard to summarise all content sources and

data for a story;• classifies stories regarding three scores:−popularity – how influential is a story;−veracity – how trustworthy is a story;−checkworthyness – how likely a story can be checked against

data sources;

Hercule as a data journalism platform:

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What are the use cases?

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• Stay apprised of the development of a topic rapidly becoming hot

• Summarize major events about long running topics

• Stimulate broad and diverse discussion about hot and emerging topics

Use cases

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Two user groups:

• Fact checking and quality assurance journalists at big public media organisations

• Fake news enthusiasts and city journalists

User groups

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How it delivers value?

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