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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
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News research in a multilingual EuropeNews research in a multilingual Europe
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
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News research in a multilingual EuropeNews research in a multilingual Europe
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
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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)
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PCM Publishers organizational chartPCM Publishers organizational chart
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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
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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)
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News research in a multilingual EuropeNews research in a multilingual Europe
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
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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)
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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)
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News research in a multilingual EuropeNews research in a multilingual Europe
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
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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.]
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News research in a multilingual EuropeNews research in a multilingual Europe
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
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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
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The Multilingual reality in EuropeThe Multilingual reality in Europe
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The MultilingualThe Multilingual Online population - 1Online population - 1
http://www.global-reach.biz/globstats/evol.html
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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 %
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The Multilingual Challenges - 2The Multilingual Challenges - 2
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%
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The Multilingual Challenges - 3The Multilingual Challenges - 3
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
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News research in a multilingual EuropeNews research in a multilingual Europe
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
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The Multilingual Challenges - 4The Multilingual Challenges - 4
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)
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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)
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Experiment: ml search engine Experiment: ml search engine
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Experiment: ml search engine Experiment: ml search engine
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ExamplesExamples
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ExamplesExamples
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ExamplesExamples
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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
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THANK YOU – DANK U WEL - GRACIASTHANK YOU – DANK U WEL - GRACIAS