SourcesSay invited seminar at IRISA
Ioana Manolescu gave an invited seminar titled “What do the Sources Say? Exploring Heterogeneous Journalistic Data As a Graph” at the DKM department of IRISA.
PhD of Nelly Barret starts
Nelly Barret has started a PhD funded by DIM RFSI on “Efficient and Expressive Integration of Information within ConnectionLens”, in collaboration with the WeDoData SME. The research and development in this thesis will shoulder the SourcesSay project and also aim to address applications of interest to WeDoData. Welcome!
SourcesSay at DataHarvest 2020
Angelos Anadiotis, Oana Balalau, Helena Galhardas, Ioana Manolescu and Youssr Youssef attended the DataHarvest Investigative Journalism Conference on Oct 24, 2020, where, at the invitation of Stéphane Horel (Le Monde), we discussed SourcesSay applications to computational journalism.
SourcesSay at the Saclay AI Chairs Kick-Off
SourcesSay is among the 14 AI chairs presented at the DataIA Kick-Off meeting, at Centrale Supélec, on September 9, 2020.
SourcesSay and ConnectionLens featured in ADBIS 2020 keynote
Ioana’s keynote at ADBIS 2020, titled “Integrating (Very) Heterogeneous Data Sources: A Structured and an Unstructured Perspective“, featured recent results on ConnectionLens and SourcesSay’s perspectives. The video (for now) is here: http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/adbis-tpdl-eda-2020/pres/Keynote4Manolescu/Keynote-IoanaManolescu-ADBIS2020.mp4 Thanks to Angelos, Oana, Irène, Camille, Catarina, Jérémie, Yamen, Minh-Huong, Julien, Tayeb, Emmanuel, Youssr and Jingmao for…
Code release: ConnectionLens available online!
The ConnectionLens platform is available online in Inria’s GitLab: https://gitlab.inria.fr/cedar/connectionlens ConnectionLens ingests heterogeneous data sources (JSON, XML, HTML, CSV, RDF, relational databases, text files, PDF) into a single, integrated graph. It stores these graphs and allows querying them using keywords, and connecting them through a GUI.
Keynote at the DATA Conference 2020
Ioana Manolescu gave a keynote titled “From Data to the Press: Data Management for Journalism and Fact-Checking” at the DATA conference 2020 http://www.dataconference.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#2 Video available: https://player.vimeo.com/video/438613563?title=0&portrait=0
SourcesSay in the Inria news
Inria’s presentation of the chair: https://www.inria.fr/fr/sourcessay as one of Inria’s AI chairs: https://www.inria.fr/fr/inria-decroche-un-quart-des-chaires-anr-en-ia
The AI Chair “SourcesSay” has been funded by the ANR and DGA
The AI chair project: “SourcesSay: Intelligent Analysis and Interconnexion of Heterogeneous Contents in Digital Arenas” has been selected for funding by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA). The project’s formal starting date will be September 2020.
