Stop the press: why censorship has made headline news (again)

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An ontology for representing financial headline news

This paper presents the development of an ontology to represent financial headline news. This ontology is developed using the On-To-Knowledge methodology where the focus is on the design steps of the Knowledge Meta Process. This development is part of an ongoing project which aims to design a virtual stock market simulator based on multi-agent systems. The proposed ontology has 31 concepts and ...

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Headline Generation for Written and Broadcast News

This technical report is an overview of work done on Headline Generation for written and broadcast news. The report covers HMM Hedge, a statistical approach based on the noisy channel model, Hedge Trimmer, a parse-andtrim approach using linguistically motivated trimming rules, and Topiary, a combination of Trimmer and Unsupervised Topic Discovery. Automatic evaluation of summaries using ROUGE a...

Bypassing Internet Censorship for News Broadcasters

News organizations are often the targets of Internet censorship. This paper will look at two technical considerations for the BBC, based on its distribution of non-English content into countries such as Iran and China, where the news services are permanently unavailable from the official BBC websites: blocking detection and circumvention. This study examines an internal BBC prototype system bui...