News Engine Web Service (NEWS)
Partners:
- Ontology Ltd. (Israel) [an associated company of European Research & Financing]
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence – DFKI GmbH (Germany)
- The Italian News Agency - Agenzia ANSA S. C. A R. L. (Italy)
- The Spanish News Agency - Agencia EFE S.A., (Spain)
- UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID, (Spain)
The Project:
The goal of the NEWS project has been to develop News Intelligence Technology for the Semantic Web. Its main purpose was to extend the reach and delivery capabilities of online content provision and syndication services by supporting advanced personalised news discovery, analysis and presentation and fostering interoperability across the news content provision and fruition lifecycle.
To this end, NEWS has developed a configurable composition of services that allowed users to access, select and personalise delivery of multimedia and multilingual news content. The services included collection and ontological annotation of news material, processing and presentation of content via headline generation and trend analysis, and a user interface for comprehensive information access that could be configured to meet individual user needs.
The ontological annotation relies on standard Semantic Web formalisms like RDF and OWL. NEWS has interfaced with and integrated available ontologies from the news domain and established news content encoding standards.
Headline generation and trend analysis have been central content processing services that were offered by the NEWS system. Both rely on the rich ontological annotation of news items in order to select and combine relevant news elements and text fragments.