Friday, February 08, 2002

Columbia Newsblaster summarizes news from a number of sources: Newsblaster is a tool for journalists, executives or even average news consumers to help them manage in an age of information overload. Everyday thousands of news reports on hundreds of events and topics are published and it is impossible for any person to keep up with it all. Newsblaster might help. The computer, a natural language processing algorithm, uses artificial intelligence techniques to cull through news reports published online, sort them, and summarize them. It does not simply lift sentences to use as the summary. Instead, Newsblaster uses natural language processing techniques to read what is written in published news reports. I haven't looked closely at it yet. If they had an XML interface, we could suck them into Radio! 8:53:09 AM     Lots of fancy rhetoric, same old sops to the rich and the military-industrial complex: Bush stiffs NYC on the $20 he promised for aid after September 11, his military budget buys stuff we don't need, and his tax cuts pay off the rich. But when they're called on it, his administration says its critics are "money-grubbing." Nice op-ed in the NY Times by Paul Krugman (free registration required). But my guess is that it comes down to sheer arrogance. Buoyed by those approval ratings, this administration simply believes that its former promises don't matter. After all, don't people know that there's a war on? 8:42:16 AM

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