Hierarchical Nested Named Entity Recognition

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Zita Marinho, Afonso Mendes, Mir, Sebasti{\~a}o a, David Nogueira

In the medical domain and other scientific areas, it is often important to recognize different levels of hierarchy in mentions, such as those related to specific symptoms or diseases associated with different anatomical regions.

named-entity-recognition Named Entity Recognition +1

Automated Fact Checking in the News Room

no code implementations • 3 Apr 2019 • Sebastião Miranda, David Nogueira, Afonso Mendes, Andreas Vlachos, Andrew Secker, Rebecca Garrett, Jeff Mitchel, Zita Marinho

Fact checking is an essential task in journalism; its importance has been highlighted due to recently increased concerns and efforts in combating misinformation.

Fact Checking Misinformation

The SUMMA Platform: A Scalable Infrastructure for Multi-lingual Multi-media Monitoring

no code implementations • ACL 2018 • Ulrich Germann, Ren{\=a}rs Liepins, Guntis Barzdins, Didzis Gosko, Mir, Sebasti{\~a}o a, David Nogueira

The open-source SUMMA Platform is a highly scalable distributed architecture for monitoring a large number of media broadcasts in parallel, with a lag behind actual broadcast time of at most a few minutes.

Clustering Document Summarization +2

The SUMMA Platform Prototype

no code implementations • EACL 2017 • Renars Liepins, Ulrich Germann, Guntis Barzdins, Alex Birch, ra, Steve Renals, Susanne Weber, Peggy van der Kreeft, Herv{\'e} Bourlard, Jo{\~a}o Prieto, Ond{\v{r}}ej Klejch, Peter Bell, Alex Lazaridis, ros, Alfonso Mendes, Sebastian Riedel, Mariana S. C. Almeida, Pedro Balage, Shay B. Cohen, Tomasz Dwojak, Philip N. Garner, Andreas Giefer, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Hina Imran, David Nogueira, Ahmed Ali, Mir, Sebasti{\~a}o a, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Lesly Miculicich Werlen, Nikos Papasarantopoulos, Abiola Obamuyide, Clive Jones, Fahim Dalvi, Andreas Vlachos, Yang Wang, Sibo Tong, Rico Sennrich, Nikolaos Pappas, Shashi Narayan, Marco Damonte, Nadir Durrani, Sameer Khurana, Ahmed Abdelali, Hassan Sajjad, Stephan Vogel, David Sheppey, Chris Hernon, Jeff Mitchell

We present the first prototype of the SUMMA Platform: an integrated platform for multilingual media monitoring.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +5