Pushing the Quality Level in Networked News Business: Semantic-Based Content Retrieval and Composition in International News Publishing

摘要

Electronic publishing exploits numerous possibilities to presentor exchange information and to communicate via most current media like theInternet. By utilizing modern Web technologies like Web Services, looselycoupled services, and peer-to-peer networks we describe the integration of anintelligent business news presentation and distribution network. Employingsemantics technologies enables the coupling of multinational and multilingual business news data on a scalable international level and thus introducea service quality that is not achieved by alternative technologies in the newsdistribution area so far. Architecturally, we identified the loose couplingof existing services as the most feasible way to address multinational andmultilingual news presentation and distribution networks. Furthermore wesemantically enrich multinational news contents by relating them using AItechniques like the Vector Space Model. Summarizing our experiences wedescribe the technical integration of semantics and communication technologies in order to create a modern international news network.