A look at 2007 and beyond
The new year is here so I would like to review the main events and accomplishments of NewsTin in 2007 and invite everybody to add everything I might have forgotten!
* we moved to a new beautiful office,
* we came up with new design that was so far ahead from what we had before,
* NewsTin opened an office in Los Altos, California
* we introduced entities to our system aside from our topical categories and even though we are still dealing with entity extraction issues, the whole project has been very successful so far,
* we were constantly improving our front end, working on our existing features and introducing new ones, such as “Send to a friend” feature or social bookmarking
* we welcomed new colleagues to our taxonomy development and IT team - Stella Yu, Kamila Hassanova, Giovanni Mina, Vladimir Meier, Michal Kubrt, Lukas Stanek
* NewsTin participated in the numerous conferences such as Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in Denver, European Text Analytics Summit in Amsterdam, 3rd Annual Text Analytics Summit in Boston, the BOBCATSSS Symposium in Prague, The Hatchery All investors Panel in New York City, Annual Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics in Prague, etc.
And what are we up to in 2008?
* we currently deal with around 26.000 topical categories in each of our 11 language editions - we are preparing changes in the taxonomy structure in order to make it easier to understand and way more intuitive to use
* we manage about 27.000 personal name entities and about 16.000 corporate name entities as well and these numbers are going to grow fast
- we are planning on including as many relevant persons and companies as we can and we have a big part of the world to cover:-)
* we are looking forward to the new revolutionary design of our webpage and it looks like it will be worth the wait, the new front end will be much more dynamic, interactive and user friendly
* we will soon introduce sentiment analysis and event extraction that should both become interesting tools for users who go to NewsTin just to quickly check out the news as well as for professional users who use NewsTin as an open source intelligence resource
* we will be implementing number of social features but I will keep them secret for now and let our product development manager Pavel Dyurych reveal them one by one:-)
Let’s see next December how it all went and turned out.
I wish happy holidays and an awesome new year to all our users and a successful 2008 full of hard but fruitful work to the NewsTin team!:-)
