NewsExplorer - Multilingual News Analysis with Cross-lingual Linking

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NewsExplorer http//press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer
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Information gathered about one person from news
in different languages.

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

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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.

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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.

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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?
  id97338

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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/R
  TERadio-a1f9133c6597eb067e7299b1923dffe6.html
• Timeline for German language reports
  http//press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/storyedition/de/H
  eute-974a52e88cf23fd551ce168c86295dd9.html