We focus on automatic coreference resolution for blogs and news articles with user comments as part of a project on opinion mining. We aim to study the effect of the genre shift from edited structured newspaper text to unedited, unstructured blog data. We compare our coreference resolution system on three data sets: newspaper articles, mixed newspaper articles and reader comments, and blog data...

Online newspapers, having existed on the Internet for a couple of years, are now having similar form and content, starting to shape what could be called a genre. We have analyzed the news sites of nine Swedish local newspapers using a repertoire of genre elements consisting of navigation elements, landmarks, news streams, headlines, search/archives and advertisements. We have also interviewed 1...

This article contributes with a unique quantitative study of newspaper executives’ perceptions of the interest and collaboration contained within digital media innovation among staff in the editorial, business and IT departments. Two research questions are explored: (1) Do newspaper executives perceive that there is diverging interest in digital media innovation across the editorial, business a...

This paper reports the development of design visions for the future electronic (e-) newspaper. The ambition is to bring together the features of printed newspapers with the possibilities of online media. In an engaged design science research project we together with representatives of the newspaper industry and newspaper readers identified the three design challenges genre awareness, stress and...

In this paper I describe a genre analysis for on-line newspapers, revealing how their mediating form affect news related activities. A repertoire of elements was developed during the analysis of three on-line newspapers, to describe them. It is a repertoire of content, information structure and interaction elements together with with a repertoire of mediationg roles. The analysis in terms of th...

This paper describes the integration process of Lucy Software’s machine translation system into the editorial process flow of La Vanguardia newspaper, where it is used on a daily basis as a help-tool in order to produce bilingual editions of the daily newspaper in Catalan and Spanish. The integration process includes both technical and linguistic adaptations, as well as a final post-edition pro...

We ran both Brill’s rule-based tagger and TNT, a statistical tagger, with a default German newspaper-language model on a medical text corpus. Supplied with limited lexicon resources, TNT outperforms the Brill tagger with state-of-the-art performance figures (close to 97% accuracy). We then trained TNT on a large annotated medical text corpus, with a slightly extended tagset that captures certai...

contrastive rhetorical analysis as a way of understanding different ways through which writers from various cultural backgrounds shape their discourse was officially initiated by the works of kaplan (1966). this study tries to use the methodology to investigate the news reports in two american and iranian widely published newspapers. using the analytical methodologies of contrastive rhetoric an...