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 guntisbarzdins | Jun 30, 2022 | NLP
Training large neural models for speech and language processing (NLP), requires not only a lot of data input (read here on why and here on how SELMA is handling this ) but also a lot of computing resources. Nowadays, a fair share of computing resources are...
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 Pedro Ferreira | Sep 9, 2021 | NER, News, HLT
As the world moves faster, more and more information is generated every day. In order to make sense of such large amounts of information, journalists and media monitors benefit from automatic processes that are capable of extracting entities present in the text....