An experiment is described in which reporters captured realworld news stories as semantically structured representations of journalistic events and narratives, and preliminary results from the experiment are discussed. The experiment was conducted using the Structured Stories prototype platform, which provides a library of abstractions of journalistic events grounded in frame semantics. Realwor...

The paper develops a pilot study aiming at finding a methodology for identifying features of journalistic writing profiles. The study is based on capturing dominant discursive tonalities, knowing that journalistic discourse entails public legitimacy. We made use of a series of natural language processing tools as preliminary steps in revealing three egocentric journalistic identities. Based on ...

Ethical decision making is increasingly emphasized in daily media practice. The pervasive reportage of disaster is a ready context to analyze journalistic ethical orientations. This study examines several classic approaches and their applications in covering disaster, in order to develop a comprehensive ethical framework (an ethical coordinate) for researchers to examine journalistic ethical or...

Facilitating general access to data from sensor networks (including traffic, hydrology and other domains) increases their utility. In this paper we argue that the journalistic metaphor can be effectively used to automatically generate multimedia presentations that help non-expert users analyze and understand sensor data. The journalistic layout and style are familiar to most users. Furthermore,...

Machine translation systems can be classified into rule-based and corpus-based approaches, in terms of their core technology. Since both paradigms have largely been used during the last years, one of the aims in the research community is to know how these systems differ in terms of translation quality. To this end, this paper reports a study and comparison of a rule-based and a corpus-based (pa...

Machine translation systems can be classified into rule-based and corpusbased approaches, in terms of their core methodology. Since both paradigms have been largely used during the last years, one of the aims in the research community is to know how these systems differ in terms of translation quality. To this end, this paper reports a study and comparison of several specific Catalan-Spanish ma...

In this study we compare the ESTER corpus of journalistic speech [1] and the NCCF corpus of spontaneous speech [2] in terms of duration, f0 and spectral reduction in productions automatically detected as speech units between pauses. Continuation f0 rises are overall absent in spontaneous speech and speech units reveal a declination slope with less amplitude than in journalistic speech. For both...