NewsRel Uses Machine Learning To Summarize News Stories And Put Them On A Map
After 24 hours of staring at their screens, the teams that participated have now finished their projects for our Disrupt 2013 NY Hackathon and are currently presenting their project on stage. With over 160 hacks, there are far too many cool ones to write about, but one that stood out to me was NewsRel, an iPad-based news app that uses machine learning techniques to understand how news stories relate to each other. The app uses Google Maps as its main interface and automatically decides which location is most appropriate for any given story. The app currently uses Reuters‘ RSS feed and analyzes the stories, looking for clusters of related stories and then puts them on the map. Say you are looking at a story about the Boston Marathon bombings. The app, of course, will show you a number of news stories about it clustered around Boston, then maybe something about the president’s comments about it from Washington and another article that relates it to the massacre during the Munich Olympics ...
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