IBM Watson's 'News Explorer' - big tech gets into semantic news

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David Caswell

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Nov 3, 2015, 4:20:43 PM11/3/15
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Check out what IBM's Cognitive Visualization Lab has been doing with it's recently acquired NLP company Alchemy API  http://news-explorer.mybluemix.net


From their abstract: "up-to-the-minute news, 250K articles a day, 70K sources—distilling vast unstructured text into entities and concepts, and connecting the dots within a suite of linked data visualizations."


This is a news knowledge platform. Is 21st century journalism going to be about 'vast unstructured text' or about 'entities and concepts'?


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