Personal items and news notes

Relating RSS News/Items

Merging related RSS news (coming from one or different sources) is beneficial for end-users with different backgrounds (journalists, economists, etc.), particularly those accessing similar information. In this paper, we provide a practical approach to both: measure the relatedness, and identify relationships between RSS elements. Our approach is based on the concepts of semantic neighborhood an...

Filtering for Medical News Items

In this paper we describe recent work to provide a filtering service for readers interested in medically related news articles from online news sources. The first task is to filter out the nonmedical news articles. The remaining articles, the medically related ones, are then assigned MeSH headings for context and then categorized further by intended audience level (medical expert, medically kno...

BUSM News & Notes: May 30, 1980 no. 32: BUSM News and Notes

Linking Semantic Personal Notes

Semantic Web technologies are available and gain popularity both on the Web and on the desktop. However, in spite of common representation formats, personal and online data is still difficult to interlink, notably because of the different vocabularies used to describe it, as well as the lack of common identifiers between desktop and Web-based applications. In this paper, we describe a process f...

Personal Navigation in the World of News

This is a brief description of MESH Multimedia semantic syndication for enhanced news services (http://www.mesh-ip.eu), an EC co-funded project that started in March 2006 to create a framework for intelligent creation and delivery of semantically-enhanced multimedia news.