Newspaper Stories: Creating a Newspaper for a Fictional Community

Skimming Newspaper Stories by Computer

Automatic Headline Generation for Newspaper Stories

In this paper we propose a novel application of Hidden Markov Models to automatic generation of informative headlines for English texts. We propose four decoding parameters to make the headlines appear more like Headlinese, the language of informative newspaper headlines. We also allow for morphological variation in words between headline and story English. Informal and formal evaluations indic...

Creating a Fuzzy Believer to Model Human Newspaper Readers

We present a system capable of modeling human newspaper readers. It is based on the extraction of reported speech, which is subsequently converted into a fuzzy theory-based representation of single statements. A domain analysis then assigns statements to topics. A number of fuzzy set operators, including fuzzy belief revision, are applied to model different belief strategies. At the end, our sy...

A New Method for Segmenting Newspaper Articles

Digital preservation of old newspapers contributes greatly to the historical register of a country's social, political and economical events. At the same time, newspaper preservation is an imperative necessity because of the fast paper deterioration and difficulty in tracing the overwhelming amount of information. Lambrakis Press S.A. owns a large collection of newspapers and periodicals that c...

Ontological Infrastructure for a Semantic Newspaper

In order to make news management in the journalism domain affordable it is necessary to make machines aware of a greater part of the underlying semantics. However, things can not change from one day to the next. Newspapers have made great investments in their current news management systems and there have been also great standardisation efforts in order to facilitate interoperation. The wish is...