The BBC is currently tagging programmes manually, using DBpedia as a source of tag identifiers, and a list of suggested tags extracted from their synopsis. These tags are then used to help navigation and topic-based search of BBC programmes. However, given the very large number of programmes available in the archive, most of them having very little metadata attached to them, we need a way of au...

Drawing on a systematic content analysis, this article examines how far television news bulletins with different levels of public service obligations reported the EU and local elections in 2009 and the local elections in 2013. The aim is to compare coverage on the main evening terrestrial bulletins in the United Kingdom (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) during different types of second or...

Cooking on television after WWII mainly addressed ‘the housewife’ audience, while women themselves were presenting cooking programmes. History has largely forgotten the presenter Joan Robins, who appeared alongside Philip Harben and Marguerite Patten BBC broadcasts of late 1940s 1950s. Robins specialised in ‘common-sense’ cookery, nutrition, health, including a controversial slimming programme ...

The BBC has a very large archive of programmes, covering a wide range of topics. This archive holds a significant part of the BBC’s institutional memory and is an important part of the cultural history of the United Kingdom and the rest of the world. These programmes, or parts of them, can help provide valuable context and background for current news events. However the BBC’s archive catalogue ...

In this paper, first we describe rushes summarization system which is made this year for the TRECVID2008 BBC rushes task. Our aim this year is to build up base system using minimum information and to see how it works. In the second we will describe about our High-level feature extraction system briefly.

A well-known result on unions of polyhedra in the same space gives an extended formulation whose projection is the convex hull of the union. Here in contrast we study the unions of polytopes in different spaces, giving a complete description of the convex hull without additional variables. When the underlying polytopes are monotone, the facets are described explicitly, generalizing results of H...

This paper describes an informal component that we added to an online formal language learning environment in order to help the learners reach relevant Internet pages they can freely use to complement their learning activity. Thanks to this facility, each lesson is enriched, at run time, with a number of links automatically retrieved from social bookmarking sites. The learners also have at disp...