News research in a multilingual Europe

6/11/03 Voordracht SLA DNWS / wr 1

News Division SLANews Division SLA

Wil RoestenburgWil RoestenburgHead Information & Documentation Head Information & Documentation

PCM Landelijke DagbladenPCM Landelijke Dagbladen

News research in a multilingual EuropeNews research in a multilingual Europe

6/11/03 Voordracht SLA DNWS / wr2


Some facts about PCM / Dutch newspapers Some facts about PCM news libraries (I&D) Dutch content in LNX Dealing with a multilingual web Language technology and experiments in

multilingual searching






Some facts about PCM Publishers Some facts about PCM Publishers

PCM Uitgevers / PCM Publishers 4 National dailies (>1,041,000 circ.)3 Regional newspapersDatabase FactLANE (till 2003)BooksEducationwww.pcmuitgevers.nl

(English profile available in pdf)


PCM Publishers organizational chartPCM Publishers organizational chart


PCM 4 National dailiesPCM 4 National dailies

Algemeen DagbladStarted in 1946Daily circulation: 320,303

NRC Handelsblad Started 1828Daily circulation: 268,486

Trouw 30 January 1943Daily circulation: 123,788

de Volkskrant Since 1921Daily circulation: 328,931

Het Parool Raised during WWII Sold 2003


PCM in the Dutch marketPCM in the Dutch market

Market shares main Dutch newspaper companies:

• Telegraaf: 31%• PCM: 30%• Wegener: 28%

• NDC: 7%• Others (<60.000): 4%

(Source: Oplagen Dagbladen 2002)






PCM Information & DocumentationPCM Information & Documentation

4 news libraries (front offices)- Amsterdam - Rotterdam

1 dept. I&D Data (back office for content management, techniques & support) - Amsterdam

2 project managers / coordinators / staff

1 head I&D total 58 fte (64 empl.)

Projectmanager / CoördinationI&D services

Projectmanager / CoördinationI&D services

Content managementTechnics & Support

I&D Alg. Dagblad

I&D NRC/H

I&D Volkskrant

I&D (Parool / Trouw)

Wil RoestenburgHead I&D

Sector Information & Documentation (I&D)


PCM Information & DocumentationPCM Information & Documentation

Sector Information & Documentation (I&D) Common back office I&D Data

central databases text / images EDDA (DC4) / FRS (Verity)

common contracts with vendors, training, CE, etc. common project management / F&A / HRM common intranet (ID-net) common deals about exploitation / data sales

Database FactLANE (spin off EDDA) FactLANE (1988 – 2002)

Library Alert Data delivery

FactLane was sold to Lexis Nexis (Dec. 2002)






Judy Vezmar (LNX) on Dutch contentJudy Vezmar (LNX) on Dutch content

Vol.27 No.2 - March/April 2003

The European Legal Information Market: An Interview with Judy Vezmar, CEO, LexisNexis

Butterworths Tolley By Marydee Ojala • Editor

The Netherlands is another strategic market. If you look at Dutch content, you would say, well, who cares other than people in the Netherlands, but, in fact, you have South Africa and other countries around the world where the Dutch language is understood. There'll be announcements in that area shortly that I can't really talk about today. [On December 16, 2002, LexisNexis Group announced the acquisition of FactLANE, a Dutch online news service, from PCM Uitgevers. FactLANE adds significant, unique content to the LexisNexis business intelligence product, including NRC Handelsblad and de Volkskrant.]






The Multilingual Challenges - 1The Multilingual Challenges - 1

Is the online-world on the threshold of a “multilingual revolution”?

In 5 years time the number of internet users will double

From 500 million to 1 billion Average growth of almost 275.000 new internet

users per day More than 80% have not mastered English at all! The online world is a multilingual world: lingual

diversity might affect our daily work


The Multilingual reality in EuropeThe Multilingual reality in Europe


The MultilingualThe Multilingual Online population - 1Online population - 1

http://www.global-reach.biz/globstats/evol.html


The MultilingualThe Multilingual Online population - 2Online population - 2

Sept. 2002English: 36,5 % Chinese: 10,9 % Japanese: 9,7 % Spanish: 7,2 %

March 2003 English: 35,2 %Chinese: 11,9 %Japanese: 10,3 %Spanish: 8,1 %



Internet usage 1998English / non-English(total 147 million)

World population(6 billion)

Internet usage 2002English / non-English(total 619 million)

English 57%Non-English 43%



Chart of Web content, by language

English 68.4%Japanese 5.9%German 5.8%Chinese 3.9%French 3.0%Spanish 2.4%Russian 1.9%Italian 1.6%Portuguese 1.4%Korean 1.3%Other 4.6%Total non-English 31.8%

Total Web pages: 313 BSource: Vilaweb.com, as quoted by eMarketer







How do we deal with foreign content?

Language Technology and (global) news research Experiments on multilingual / cross lingual

searching / retrieval (e.g. www.newsallovertheworld.nl)

Language Technology and information management Automatic indexing and categorization (Irion /

Seybold report, Vol. 2, No. 6, June 17, 2002) “Automatic Enhanced Searching” Automatic translation (MT / TM / concepts & semantic

network)


www.newsallovertheworld.nlwww.newsallovertheworld.nl

Started as a joke Multilingual search engine “21” Crawls and indexes 50-100 newspapers > 250-

300 Search with: “all the words”, “best phrase”

“Fahrad = fiets = bicyclette = bicycle = ?? …” Search on compounds Automatic translation (semantic network

Wordnet)


Experiment: ml search engine Experiment: ml search engine


Experiment: ml search engine Experiment: ml search engine


ExamplesExamples


ExamplesExamples


ExamplesExamples



News Division SLANews Division SLA

Wil RoestenburgWil RoestenburgHead Information & Documentation Head Information & Documentation

PCM Landelijke DagbladenPCM Landelijke Dagbladen



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