Automatic extraction of quotes and topics from news feeds

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Luís Sarmento (Author) FEUP; Sérgio Nunes (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings National

Title: DSIE'09 - 4th Doctoral Symposium on Informatics Engineering

Pages: 1-12

DSIE'09 - 4th Doctoral Symposium on Informatics Engineering

Porto, Portugal, 5 a 6 de Fevereiro de 2009

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Technology > Communication technology ; Social sciences > Communication sciences > On-line information services ; Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics > Computational linguistics ; Humanities > Information science > Information management > Information processing

Other information

Abstract (EN): The explosive growth in information production poses increasing challenges to consumers, confronted with problems often described as ¿information over¿ow¿. We present verbatim, a software system that can be used as a personal information butler to help structure and ¿lter information. We address a small part of the information landscape, namely quotes extraction from portuguese news. This problem includes several challenges, speci¿cally in the areas of information extraction and topic distillation. We present a full description of the problems and our adopted approach. verbatim is available online at http://irlab.fe.up.pt/p/verbatim.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12