We present methods for finding same or almost same news stories in the hourly radio news broadcasts. Our procedures are able to detect reoccuring news stories of subsequent news broadcasts spoken by the same or different announcers only from the speech signal. They allow to establish a large database of repeated and professionally read speech at low costs that is especially interesting for pros...

Augmented Reality (AR) merges the real and virtual worlds into one combined user experience. Users have access to digital data surrounding them, which can be used for various purposes. Real world always has a limited space for representing information, but the digital world can hold any amount of information at any location. This can be used to pass digital content and stories between people, w...

The rise of social media sites, such as blogs, wikis, Digg and Flickr among others, underscores a transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, evaluating and distributing information. The social news aggregator Digg allows users to submit links to and vote on news stories. Like other social media sites, Digg also allows users to designate others as “...

This paper describes a mobile context-aware ‘intelligent affective guide with attitude’ that guides visitors touring an outdoor attraction. Its behavior is regulated by a biologically inspired architecture of emotion, allowing it to adapt to the user’s needs and feelings. In addition to giving an illusion of life, the guide emulates a real guide’s behavior by presenting stories based on the use...

In news stories, event mentions denote real-world events of different spatial and temporal granularity. Narratives in news stories typically describe some real-world event of coarse spatial and temporal granularity along with its subevents. In this work, we present HiEve, a corpus for recognizing relations of spatiotemporal containment between events. In HiEve, the narratives are represented as...

Online news sources produce thousands of news articles every day, reporting on local and global real-world events. New information quickly replaces the old, making it difficult for readers to put current events in the context of the past. The stories about these events have complex relationships and characteristics that are difficult to model: they can be weakly or strongly related or they can ...