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Hyper Media News: a fully automated platform for large scale analysis, production and distribution of multimodal news content

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This paper describes Hyper Media News (HMNews), a system for the automated aggregation and consumption of information streams from digital television and the Internet. TV newscasts are automatically segmented, annotated and indexed. Such information is then integrated with those available from Internet blogs, newspapers and press agencies. The end result is a set of innovative information services that supplies retrieval, recommendation and browsing of multi-modal news items across different production paradigms, ranging from traditional professional media, e.g. television and press, to new user-centric media platforms such as social networking sites, internet forums and blogs.

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  1. http://editor.googlemashups.com/

  2. http://pipes.yahoo.com/

  3. http://www.outbrain.com/

  4. Text processing is performed using the OpenNLP toolkit (http://opennlp.sourceforge.net/) trained on both English and Italian data. Further languages can be integrated at any time, provided that either automatic translation services or the corresponding training models are available.

  5. http://search.cpan.org/dist/AI-Categorizer/

  6. http://lucene.apache.org/

  7. Boilerplate stripping is done using PotaModule (http://sslmitdev-online.sslmit.unibo.it/wac/post_processing.php).

  8. http://annalupini.blog.kataweb.it/

  9. http://mariotedeschini.blog.kataweb.it/

  10. www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/hrubrica.asp?ID_blog=196

  11. http://mediablog.corriere.it/

  12. http://laderiva.corriere.it/

  13. http://leviedellasia.corriere.it/

  14. www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/hrubrica.asp?ID_blog=124

  15. www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/hrubrica.asp?ID_blog=242

  16. www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/hrubrica.asp?ID_blog=197

  17. http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/AI-Categorizer/

  18. http://iorio.blog.kataweb.it/

  19. OpenLogos Machine Translation—http://logos-os.dfki.de/

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  1. RAI Centre for Research and Technological Innovation, Corso E. Giambone, 68 - 10135, Torino, Italy

    Alberto Messina, Maurizio Montagnuolo & Roberto Borgotallo

  2. Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129, Torino, Italy

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Part of the content of this paper has been at the 3rd International Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production, AIEMPro’10, Florence 25-29 October 2010.

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Messina, A., Montagnuolo, M., Di Massa, R. et al. Hyper Media News: a fully automated platform for large scale analysis, production and distribution of multimodal news content. Multimed Tools Appl 63, 427–460 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-011-0859-1

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