Valentin's Blog: Topix.net - A Concept Based News Portal?

Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Topix.net - A Concept Based News Portal?

Just came across an article describing Topix.net - a site that automatically classifies news stories according to their topics. Another major feature seems to be the integrated background knowledge about US geography. Search for Springfield to understand what I mean: not only does the system ask for a disambiguation about which Springfield you mean, but it also offers a list of "Nearby Cities".

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Topix

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I’m Valentin Zacharias, a PhD student in Karlsruhe. I work at the FZI and at Ontoprise. My work is in the area of Artificial Intelligence and the Semantic Web. My PhD advisor is Prof. R. Studer of the institute AIFB at the University of Karlsruhe. I studied computer science and psychology in Berlin and Massachussetts.
Here you find thoughts and links about developments in AI, the Semantic Web and sometimes Computer Science in general. I focus on EU projects in this area and things happening in "Semantic Karlsruhe". I write about about my work where it is not confidential (a large part is) and from time to time I’ll post one of my pictures.
You can contact me at "zach" at "fzi" in Germany (tld = "de") or using this contact form.

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Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Topix.net - A Concept Based News Portal?

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