Building an Ontology for NEWS Applications Norberto Fern

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Building an Ontology for NEWS Applications
Norberto Fernández-García, Luis
Sánchez-Fernández Telematic Engineering
DepartmentCarlos III University of
Madridberto, luiss_at_it.uc3m.es
NEWS Ontology
NEWS (News Engine Web Services)

• USAGE SCENARIO REQUIREMENTS
• Intended Usage
• News categorization taxonomy
• News annotation vocabulary
• Axioms for intelligent query component
• Compatibility with journalism standards
• News representation standards (NewsML, NITF)
• News metadata standards
• Fast processing (news freshness)
• Range of Contents (almost everything in the
  world!)
• Compatibility with Ontology Standards (RDFS,
  OWL)
• FIRST NEWS ONTOLOGY PROTOTYPE
• Relies on NITF as news representation standard.
• Three main modules

http//www.news-project.com
PARTNERS

• OBJECTIVES
• Define ontologies for the news industry, using
• standards as OWL or RDFS.
• Use Web Services technologies in order to
  implement
• interoperable components which can be
  integrated
• into the news agencies workflow
• An ontological annotation component to produce
• automatically annotations for newswires.
• Intelligent, reasoning-based, query component
  with
• multilingual and multimedia capabilities.
• Facilitate definition of personal interest
  profiles
• Adapt news content delivery to different
  plattforms (eg., mobile phones).

ltNewsItemMetadata rdfID"http//www.efe.es/items/
Metadata/Met-NITF-VI9222"gt lthasNewsItem
rdfdatatype"xsdanyURI"gthttp//www.efe.es/items
/NITF/VI9222lt/hasNewsItemgt lthasTitle
rdfdatatype"xsdstring"gtCámara Vasca condena
"manipulación informativa" de Gobierno de
PP.lt/hasTitlegt lthasMainHeadline
rdfdatatype"xsdstring"gtP.VASCO-ATENTADOS
MADRIDlt/hasMainHeadlinegt lthasSubHeadline
rdfdatatype"xsdstring"gtCámara Vasca condena
"manipulación informativa" de Gobierno de
PPlt/hasSubHeadlinegt lt!-- Values from IPTC Topic
Sets --gt lthasMediaType rdfdatatype"xsdanyURI"
gturnnewsmliptc.org20001006topicset.iptc-mediat
ype3Med1 lt/hasMediaTypegt lthasObjectType
rdfdatatype"xsdanyURI"gturnnewsmliptc.org200
01006topicset.iptc-newsitemtype4nit01
lt/hasObjectTypegt lthasAttribute
rdfdatatype"xsdanyURI"gturnnewsmliptc.org200
01006topicset.iptc-genre5A001
lt/hasAttributegt lt!-- Category of news item --gt
lthasSubjectReferencegt lthasSubjectIdentifier
rdfdatatype"xsdanyURI"gthttp//www.news-project
.com/ontology-alphasr02000000
lt/hasSubjectIdentifiergt lthasSubjectFullName
rdfdatatype"xsdstring"gtCrime, Law and
Justicelt/hasSubjectFullNamegt lt/hasSubjectReferenc
egt lthasKeyword rdfdatatype"xsdstring"gtP.VASC
O-ATENTADOS MADRIDlt/hasKeywordgt lthasLanguage
rdfdatatype"xsdlanguage"gtes-ESlt/hasLanguagegt
lthasIdentifier rdfdatatype"xsdstring"gtVI9222lt/
hasIdentifiergt lthasAuthorshipInfogt lthasAuthor
rdfdatatype"xsdstring"gtefea0840/efea0828lt/hasA
uthorgt lthasCodedAuthor rdfdatatype"xsdstring
"gtO99ZqLwKrw29ZqLwKp23nwJlt/hasCodedAuthorgt
lthasCreationTime rdfdatatype"xsddateTime"gt2004
-05-07T112600lt/hasCreationTimegt
lthasCreationLocation/gt lt/hasAuthorshipInfogt lthas
Priority rdfresource" http//www.news-project.co
m/ontology-alphaEFE_priority_R"/gt lthasRelevance
rdfresource" http//www.news-project.com/ontolog
y-alphaEFE_relevance_C"/gt lthasStoryTime
rdfdatatype"xsddate"gt2004-05-07lt/hasStoryTimegt
lthasStoryLocation rdfdatatype"xsdstring"gtVit
orialt/hasStoryLocationgt lthasAnnotationgt
lthasEntity rdfdatatype"xsdanyURI"gt
http//www.news-project.com/ontology-alphaCitylt/h
asEntitygt lthasStartPoint rdfdatatype"xsdanyU
RI"gt http//www.efe.es/items/NITF/VI9222xpoi
nter(//body.content/p1/text()/point()position()
189) lt/hasStartPointgt lthasText
rdfdatatype"xsdstring"gtMadridlt/hasTextgt
lt/hasAnnotationgt lt/NewsItemMetadatagt
NEWS INTENDED WORKFLOW
NEWS is funded as project FP6 001906 by
Semantic-based Knowledge Services
ISWC 2004 Hiroshima (Japan)