This paper describes the development and use of an interface for visually evaluating distance measures. The combination of multidimensional scaling plots, histograms and tables allows for different stages of overview and detail. The interdisciplinary project Rule-based search in text databases with nonstandard orthography develops a fuzzy full text search engine and uses distance measures for h...

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This paper presents the approach of the Glocal European funded project towards the co-production of news on World events, on an information marketplace involving both amateurs and professionals. It discuss the rise of user-generated content amongst worldwide media and how event modelling and technology usage may help to foster this pro-am collaboration. Glocal: Event-based Retrieval of Networke...