by kaymacquarrie | Mar 21, 2024 | Diversity, News, HLT, NLP, open-source
FAQ – Eight Questions and Answers As SELMA is facing its last month out of 39 in total, we are wrapping up with a couple of questions and answers. Enjoy! Table of Contents Was the money spent well? Eventually, this is up to the reviewers to decide. But this is...
by Konstantin Klein | Jan 4, 2024 | AI, News, HLT
Artificial intelligence in journalism: In newsrooms worldwide, there is a heated debate about what it means for the future of the media industry and its employees. First attempts to have texts written by AI-fueled systems are viewed with suspicion, and every mistake...
by normundsgruzitis, guntisbarzdins | Oct 18, 2023 | News, HLT, NLP, open-source
We are excited to introduce the SELMA Open-Source Software (OSS) Platform, developed by IMCS at the University of Latvia. SELMA OSS offers effective means to test and compare the performance of various language models used in multilingual media monitoring and content...
by kaymacquarrie | Nov 3, 2022 | News, HLT
What’s new in the multilingual newsroom in terms of AI-supported tools? How to produce content which is available in many languages and formats and which is accessible to people with disabilities? How to monitor vast amounts of data and cluster information in...
by kseniaskriptchenko | May 26, 2022 | AI, News, HLT
Machine learning requires large quantities of labeled training data (for more insights, read more in this post). That means, in order to reach acceptable performance, current speech recognition systems training demands thousands of hours of transcribed speech. For...
by kseniaskriptchenko | Mar 1, 2022 | AI, Diversity, News, HLT
Diversity is becoming the new norm according to the German Zukunftsinstitut in its megatrend survey. Megatrends are said to last for at least a decade which means – the topic will stick with us into the 2030s. But let’s start with the basics: what is...