The news project - semantic web technologies for the news domain

The news domain with its dynamically growing content is a good application scenario for proving the use of Semantic Web technology. Main purpose of the NEWS project is to extend the reach and delivery capabilities of online content provision and syndication services by supporting advanced personalized news discovery, analysis and presentation, and fostering interoperability across the news content provision and fruition lifecycle. By providing a prototype version of the NEWS system to the news agency EFE, first experiences in performing query expansion in the semantic search and inferencing the information in the multilingual NEWS ontology have been made. By integrating multimedia content into this process a powerful search and retrieval tool for the editors and journalists will be established.