news the new way: semantics in the driver's seat
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Slides from presentation by Philip Dudchuk (RIA Novosti) and Daniel Hladky (Ontos/W3C) at SemTechBiz 2012 in San-FranciscoTRANSCRIPT
Philip Dudchuk & Daniel Hladky
Semantics in the Driver’s Seat
News the New Way
SemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012
Philip Dudchuk & Daniel HladkySemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012
Philip Dudchuk
Head of Semantic Platform,RIA Novosti
Daniel Hladky
Deputy Director, W3C RussiaMember of the Board, Ontos AG
Founded in the beginning of the WW2, RIA Novosti was initially a news agency reporting on the situation at the war front
1941
SemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012Philip Dudchuk & Daniel Hladky
Philip Dudchuk & Daniel HladkySemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012
First news websites looked like simple feeds
SemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012Philip Dudchuk & Daniel Hladky
Boom of platforms in late 2000s
Philip Dudchuk & Daniel HladkySemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012
Metadata rules the world of news
• News metadata gets right content to right departments of the customer (big media)
• Metadata locates reported events (local newspapers)
• Metadata enables vertical products focused on selected areas (banking, automotive, government)
Philip Dudchuk & Daniel HladkySemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012
Distinct metadata sets
Philip Dudchuk & Daniel HladkySemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012
2011: Need in a common Semantic Publishing Platform
• Build and manage a common news ontology and vocabularies for all products and news websites
• Generate metadata for both news items and articles on websites
• Aggregate content and metadata for further use in end-user applications (websites and mobile apps)
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Evolution of the Publishing Process
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News Ontology
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Managing the Triple Store
Triple Store updates
• Editorial meetings• Statistics about ‘heuristic’ entities• Adding an entity directly from CMS
Linguistic Information in the Triple Store
• Morphology• Disambiguation rules & attributes
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Impacts
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Filtering news content by triple queries at the customer’s end (via API):
• content about any oil & gas company• content about any employee of any public body in a
given region of Russia• content about any event going to happen in my city
Common metadata for newswire and web content allow to blend free and paid content into new products (news archive)
Impact 1: Broadcasting News with Semantic Metadata
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My ria.ru
• Locating the user and filtering the content by region• Gathering user interests and filtering content by
entities and topics
Impact 2: Adaptive Content of Websites
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Putting together news metadata with external content
• summer forest fires• juvenile delinquency in towns and regions• election fraud cases
Impact 3: Non-traditional Aggregations and Analytics
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Combination of crowd-sourced geo data about forest fires and local reports by RIA Novosti
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A case study: country image analysis
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Country image analysis
• Searching news content related to Russia across more than 3,000 foreign sources
• Processing search results, tagging and aggregating content with its metadata
• Producing statistics about reaction on subjects connected to Russia (events, people, organizations)
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Top sources with biggest number of negative publications on involvement of Russian politicians and businessmen in Yulia Tymoshenko’s case
Negativity Index
Tymoshenko’s case in Ukraine, threat to boycott Euro 2012
‘Pussy riots’ punks arrested
Philip Dudchuk & Daniel HladkySemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012
US media on Russia’s reaction on the events in Syria
Syria’s media on the same topic
The New York TimesThe Washington Post
The Financial Times
Philip Dudchuk & Daniel HladkySemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012
Further Challenge
• Processing the content from social media to create adaptive social applications
• Semantic metadata for pictures and video (image & voice recognition)
• Making RIA content & metadata API public
• Creating a LOD cloud bubble out of RIA ontology and vocabularies
Philip Dudchuk & Daniel HladkySemTechBiz, San Francisco, June 5, 2012
Thank you!
@philip_dudchuk@daniel_hladky