The Internet plays a major role as a source of news. Many publishers offer online versions of their newspapers to paying customers. Online newspapers bear more similarity with traditional print papers than with regular news sites. In a close collaboration with Mediengruppe Madsack – publisher of newspapers in several German federal states, we aim at providing a semantically enriched online newspaper. News articles are annotated with relevant entities – places, persons and organizations. These annotations form the basis for an entity-based `Theme Radar’, a dashboard for monitoring articles related to the users’ explicitly indicated and inferred interests.
Authors: Ricardo Kawase, Eelco Herder, Patrick Siehndel
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