NewsPatterns

Simon Price and Ben JoynerInternet Development / Web Futures

WHO

WHY

• “... pioneer principled methods of pattern analysis, statistical modelling and computational learning as core enabling technologies for multimodal interfaces that are capable of natural and seamless interaction with and among individual human users.”

• Machine learning has a crucial role in:– Machine Vision– Speech– Haptics– Brain Computer Interfaces– Information Extraction– Natural Language Processing

WHAT

AI Research Group• Promote public understanding of

pattern analysis research.

• Apply to news on the Web.

• Create audience-specific (not technology-specific) websites:– NewsPatterns– CelebrityWatch– ElectionWatch– ScienceWatch– etc...

ILRT Internet Development• Advise on Web technologies.

• Develop public facing websites.

• Give the AI Research Group the capability to re-use designs.

HOW1. Crawl the Web, fetching news feeds and web pages into a big database.2. Mine patterns in the big database to create interesting new news feeds.3. Every 6 hours, transform the new news feeds into thousands of web pages.

A quick sketch of Pattern Analysis• Some key processing steps:

– Get text– Parse text– Get named entities– Statistical analysis– Association mining– Subsequence mining– Geo-location

• Example: social network analysis:

– Co-occurrence network– Path analysis– Rank by connectivity in social network– Cluster– Time series

NewsPatterns

CelebrityWatch

ElectionWatch

ScienceWatch

Demo

Summary

• Why I think this is a good project for ILRT

Directly supports research

Visibly publicises research outcomes

Established ongoing relationship for ILRT to similarly support their future research bids