Tackling information overload: Prototype Monsoon
In the modern newsroom journalists are bombarded with information from an ever-growing number of sources – Twitter, Facebook…
Using sandcastle to cope with a tidal wave of stories
SUMMA prototype for internal media monitoring The BBC World Service is an international multimedia broadcaster, delivering a wide…
Flexibility Through SUMMA User Interfaces
From the beginning, the SUMMA consortium decided to build a common monitoring platform which is robust and flexible.…
Deutsche Welle Users Explore Internal Monitoring
Internal monitoring is seen as keeping track of what is produced within one’s own organisation. Thus, in the…
Announcing End of SUMMA project
It’s done ! The SUMMA project ended officially on 31 January 2019. But it does not mean we…
Deutsche Welle Slackbot prototype
Deutsche Welle developed a slackbot as a tool for journalists during the SUMMA hackathon in London on 21-22…
Deutsche Welle Data Dashboard
In the scope of SUMMA project, Deutsche Welle developed a data journalism dashboard. The dashboard has two components;…
SUMMA Release as Open Source
A major achievement: SUMMA has released a first open-source version of the platform on Github! The platform has…
SUMMA in a Nutshell
The SUMMA video is ready and released ! It explains in a nutshell how the SUMMA platform can help…
SUMMA checked out by Berlin Film Studies academic researchers
The Deutsche Welle Innovation Team was invited to speak at the Berlin Free University for a group of…
SUMMA hackathon in Bonn
The second SUMMA hackathon took place on 9 and 10 October in Bonn, Germany, attracting around 40 attendees…
Invitation for SUMMA user day and HLT workshops Nov 2018
We are entering the final stages of the SUMMA project, a highly promising H2020 EU-funded project which aims…
SUMMA hackathon on language technologies on 9-10 October in Bonn.
Upcoming SUMMA hack on language technologies on 9-10 October in Bonn. We will be addressing how cutting-edge language…
Meet us at KDD conference in London on Wednesday, 22 August 2018
Ulrich Germann from the University of Edinburgh and Peggy van der Kreeft from Deutsche Welle will present the…
SUMMA user testing workshop held at Deutsche Welle
SUMMA project is organising user testing workshops in Deutsche Welle Bonn and Berlin. There is an immense interest in…
Presentation of SUMMA and joint poster session with news.bridge in EAMT in Alicante
Ulrich Germann, Peggy van der Kreeft and Hina Imran of SUMMA participated in the EAMT (European Association for…
Peggy van der Kreeft attends IRT SubTec1 Symposium in Munich
Peggy van der Kreeft from Deutsche Welle is attending the IRT SubTec1 Symposium on Subtitling Technology in Munich…
SUMMA Second User Day – Madrid
The second SUMMA User Day was organised In Madrid and hosted by Priberam on 29 January 2018. It…
Join us for the second SUMMA User Group Meeting on 29 January in Madrid
The SUMMA consortium is organising its second user group meeting to show the progress made in the SUMMA…
SUMMA User Day II – Details and Agenda
SUMMA’s second user day, held on 29 January 2018 in Madrid, hosted by Priberam. The meeting is to…
Deutsche Welle Slack Bot App Wins Best Journalistic App Prize at SUMMA Hackathon
The team representing Deutsche Welle (DW) at the SUMMA Hackathon in London on 21-22 November won the Hack…
Qatar Computing Team Wins SUMMA Hack “Best Audience Experience” Prize
Congratulations to Ahmed Ali, Yifan Zhang and Fahim Dalvi for winning the prize of the “Best Audience Experience”…
Great Results at Joint SUMMA – BBC News Labs Hackathon in London
The first SUMMA hack event took place in London on the 21st and 22nd November, jointly organised by SUMMA, BBC…
University of Sheffield Addresses Fact Checking Technology at European Parliament Annual Lecture 2017
Follow the livestream of the talk by SUMMA’s Andreas Vlachos at the STOA (Science and Technology Options Assessment) Annual Lecture…
DW Demonstrates SUMMA at EBU Cloud Intelligence Seminar
The EBU (European Broadcasting Union) Cloud Intelligence Seminar (CIS) in Geneva on Tuesday 20 and 21 November addressed…
European Public Broadcaster Editors Introduced to SUMMA Platform in Amsterdam
SUMMA was presented to the News Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in Amsterdam on 14 November,…
SUMMA Features as Prime Language Project at ICT2017 Language Session
At the language-focused session at ICT2017, the European Commission 2017 ICT Proposers’ Days on 9-10 November, during which…
First SUMMA Hack Event on 21-22 November 2017 – London
The BBC is organising the first SUMMA hack event on the 21st and 22nd November in central London. The hack will…
LETA Wins AMR Generation Trophy at SemEval 2017
LETA, as part of Team RIGOTRIO, has won the AMR GENERATION 2017 trophy at SemEval 2017, Task 9.…
First SUMMA User Day Shows Potential
The SUMMA user day, held on 3rd July 2017 at BBC Monitoring in Caversham, turned out to be…
SUMMA with panel discussion at LTInnovate 2017
SUMMA will be actively contributing to the 6th Language Technology Industry Summit (LTInnovate 2017) in Brussels from 9-11…
Join us at the first SUMMA User Day on 3 July
SUMMA is organising its first user day to show off its platform and discuss potential use. The workshop will…
SUMMA Platform announced to be presented at EACL-2017
On April 3, a press release was issued announcing SUMMA presenting the first prototype of its multi-lingual…
SUMMA Presents Localisation Technologies Showcase for Entertainment Industry
During a meeting from the European branch of MESA (Media & Entertainment Services Alliance) and HITS (Hollywood IT…
SUMMA at Transcriptor Newshack
Several SUMMA team members attended the BBC News Labs Hackaton on text-to-speech technologies (#newsHACK – Transcriptor) in London…
SUMMA participates in European Parliament Language Technology Initiative
Peggy van der Kreeft from Deutsche Welle Innovation will represent SUMMA at an HLT (Human Language Technologies) workshop…
SUMMA attended Media Fast Forward 2016 at the VRT
Peggy van der Kreeft, from Deutsche Welle Innovation, represented SUMMA at the Media Fast Forward (MFF2016) event, organized…
University of Edinburgh developing attention-based NMT model called Nematus
Over the last two years, there has been a leap forward in machine translation research as deep learning…
Timeline extraction in SUMMA
What were the events involving Apple Inc. reported in the news last year? What were the main incidents…
SUMMA at LT-Accelerate 2016
SUMMA is leading a session on Speech and Language Technologies for Media Processing at the upcoming LT-Accelerate 2016…
SUMMA presented at Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2016
SUMMA was presented at the ninth edition of the Global Media Forum in Bonn, Deutsche Welle’s…
LETA Wins AMR Parsing Trophy at SemEval 2016
LETA, as part of Team RIGA, wins the AMR PARSING 2016 trophy at SemEval 2016 SUMMA at SemEval-2016…
SUMMA attended meta-forum 2016
META-FORUM 2016 (http://www.meta-net.eu/events/meta-forum-2016/) took place in Lisbon during 4-5 July 2016. META-FORUM is an international conference that focuses…
SUMMA at Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum
Meet us on 13-15 June 2016 at Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum From 13-15 June 2016 you can…
Who will win the US elections? Deutsche Welle launches PollyVote , an evidence-based election forecasting model.
Deutsche Welle launches PollyVote , an evidence-based election forecasting model. Monitoring and analysing news data to predict important news…
First SUMMA prototype developed by LETA
Already at the end of month three SUMMA has a prototype developed by LETA. At the end of…
Meeting the Monitors – a user-focused meeting held at BBC Monitoring in Caversham, UK
On 23-24 May 2016, a user-focused meeting held at the BBC Monitoring facilities in Caversham, UK, gave the…
Hello World! The SUMMA projects starts on 1 February, 2016
A kickoff meeting was held at the premises of the project coordinator, the University of Edinburgh on 1-2…