Author: Kalev Leetaru
Lipton Soup As A Lesson In The Importance Of Clarity When Asking Advanced Models To Visually Catalog Video & Visual Hallucination
We recently spotted a brief appearance of Lipton Chicken Noodle soup in a 2023 television evening news broadcast discussing Boston's…
Using Gemini To Catalog 16 Years Of 24/7 Coverage Across Three Cable News Channels: 20B Tokens Yielding 3.15M Stories
Continuing our story segmentation experiments, we used Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking to "watch" 16 years of three English language 24/7…
Using Gemini To Catalog A Year Of Ukraine TV News Coverage Across Four Countries Totaling 345K Stories For Just $1,190
There is great interest in helping journalists and scholars understand and cover the world's biggest stories each day. Yet, no…
Enriching Democracy: A First Glimpse At Cataloging & Annotating A Year Of The Legislative Process
Earlier this month we demonstrated an incredible first glimpse of applying our new story cataloging workflow to a handful of…
Gemini At Scale: Understanding Tokens In The Real World: A Small Batch Analysis Of 400M Tokens
What does it look like to apply LMMs like Gemini at scale? Specifically, given that "tokens" are the central currency…
Translating Television News From Across The World: Early Experiments Comparing Gemini Versus Google Translate
As we continue to scale up our experiments cataloging the underlying stories being covered across the world's television news coverage…
Combining Chirp ASR + Gemini To Story Segment Television News From Around The World
Continuing our series on segmenting television news broadcasts into their underlying stories, thus far we have explored segmenting only captioned…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: The Impact Of Input Chunking On Token Counts & Index Richness
We've demonstrated that input chunk size appears to have only a minimal impact on story segmentation, with larger chunk sizes…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Assessing Segmentation Stability On Non-English Broadcasts
Continuing our television news story segmentation experiments, using 2-second chunking of our Chirp ASR, how consistent is Gemini's story segmentation…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Impact Of Input Chunking On Segmentation Results
Segmenting television news broadcasts into their underlying stories has the added complexity of needing to transparently pass timecode information through…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Adding Language Detection With A Single Sentence
As we expand beyond English, it is important that we add language detection to our television news story segmentation workflow…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Experiments With Spanish-Language News Broadcasts
Given the tremendous success of our new story cataloging workflow applying Gemini 2.5 Flash to index and catalog the stories…
Enriching Democracy: Cataloging & Annotating The Legislative Process: First Experiments
Two years ago we explored the ability of LLMs to read through congressional transcripts to catalog all of the legislative…
Using Gemini To Explore The Narrative Undercurrents Of Television News At Scale: First Experiments
One of the most remarkable elements of our Gemini-powered story segmentation of television news is Gemini's incredible ability to perform…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Expanding From Evening News To General News & News Commentary Broadcasts
Yesterday we unveiled the incredible results of a massive new collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive to use…
Building A Story Index Of A Decade Of TV Evening News With Geocoding, Sentiment, Frame & Narrative Analysis In 1 Hour For $154
Journalism is fundamentally about reporting stories. Digital and print journalism organizes stories into discrete "articles", making it easy to find…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Tracking Evolving Stories Over Time Using Gemini As A Deep Neural Clustering Engine
The last few days we've demonstrated how Gemini 2.5 Flash is able to not only segment television news broadcasts into…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Adding Framing, Narrative Structure & Context Analysis
Earlier today we showcased how Gemini 2.5 Flash makes it possible to trivially add advanced analytic capabilities like sentiment analysis…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Adding Sentiment & Rich Emotional Assessment To Stories
Continuing our series on story segmentation from television news, thus far we have tested Gemini 2.5 Pro's ability to compile…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Assessing Robustness Of Computed Story Metadata Over A Decade
Yesterday we demonstrated the remarkable consistency of Gemini 2.5 Flash's segmentation of television evening news broadcasts into stories and computing…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Assessing Consistency Of Computed Story Metadata Across Runs
Building on yesterday's advances in story segmentation of television news, how consistent are the extracted keywords, topics, locations and entities…
Story Segmentation Of TV News: Adding Entities, Topics, Keywords, Names & Mappable Locations To Each Story
Last month we demonstrated Gemini 2.5's remarkable leap in story segmentation of television news. Unlike print and online news coverage,…
Gemini As Indiana Jones: Joan Of Arc, The Temple Of Solomon, Illuminations & Assessing & Translating Historical Manuscripts
Given my PhD in library and information science, I am personally fascinated by the history of how societies across the…
Global Diplomatic Forum's 21st Young Diplomats Forum: Digital Diplomacy in the Age of AI
It was an honor to speak today at the Global Diplomatic Forum's 21st Young Diplomats Forum alongside Christopher Painter and…