ScraperWiki has been a partner in NewsReader, an EU Framework 7 research project, for the last couple of years. The aim of NewsReader is to give computers the power to “understand” the news; to extract from a myriad of news articles the underlying events which gave rise to those articles; the who, the where, the […]
A long time ago*, in a galaxy far, far away** we ran the NewsReader World Cup Hack Day. *Actually it was on the 10th June . **It was in the Westminster Hub, London. NewsReader is a EU FP7 project aimed at developing natural language processing and Semantic Web technology to make sense of large streams […]
With the England team just arrived in Miami for their final preparations for the World Cup, Mohammed Bin Hammam is back in the news for further accusations of corruption. This is interesting because we saw Hammam’s name on Friday as we were testing out the NewsReader technology in preparation for our Hack Day in London […]
The NewsReader project on which we are working at ScraperWiki uses semantic web technology and natural language processing to derive meaning from the news. We are building a simple API to give access to the NewsReader datastore, whose native interface is SPARQL. SPARQL is a SQL-like query language used to access data stored in the […]
June 10, The Hub Westminster (@NewsReader) Ian Hopkinson has been telling you about our role in the NewsReader project. We’re making a thing that crunches large volumes of news articles. We’re combining natural language processing and semantic web technology. It’s an FP7 project so we’re working with a bunch of partners across Europe. We’re 18 […]
ScraperWiki has been contributing to NewsReader, an EU FP7 project, for over a year now. In that time, we’ve discovered that all the TechCrunch articles would make a pile 4 metres high, and that’s just one relatively small site. The total volume of news published everyday is enormous but the tools we use to process it […]
It was not an accident that the 2013 European Data Forum was held in Dublin given that Ireland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union runs until June 30th. The venue was Croke Park Conference Centre which over looks Ireland’s premier sporting stadium and an historic landmark. It was organised by the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), […]
