MLIA’2006, Slide 1

NewsExplorer

http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer

MLIA’2006, Slide 2

Information gathered about one person from news in different languages.

• Example: Alexander Litvinenko• http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/entities/en/97338.html

MLIA’2006, Slide 3

NewsExplorer language coverage

• NewsExplorer analyses the news in 13 languages and links related news across 10 languages (where applicable).

• For languages spoken in more than one country (e.g. English or French), users can select to see only the news published in their own country.

MLIA’2006, Slide 4

Automatic detection of links between persons

• Example: Alexander Litvinenko• http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/entities/en/97338.html

• Persons and organisations frequently mentioned in related news are listed in the boxes ‘Related People’ and ‘Related Organisations’.

• The box ‘Associated People’ filters out those people that get mentioned together with Litvinenko and that are not much in the news otherwise.

MLIA’2006, Slide 5

Visualisation of persons ‘associated with’ Alexander Litvinenko

• The visualised information was automatically extracted from the news in ten different languages.

• http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/flash/visual.jsp?id=97338

MLIA’2006, Slide 6

Interactive timeline showing the media attention dedicated to the poisoning about the Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in English and German language news.

• Timeline for English language reports: http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/storyedition/en/RTERadio-a1f9133c6597eb067e7299b1923dffe6.html

• Timeline for German language reports : http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/storyedition/de/Heute-974a52e88cf23fd551ce168c86295dd9.html