Author: Kalev Leetaru
Visual Explorer: Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian Channels Now Live-Translated Into English
In collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we are now live-transcribing and translating into English all coverage from Russian…
Sciences Et Avenir: Twitter And Google News, New Tools In The Fight Against Invasive Insects
An article on the use of GDELT with Twitter and Google News to catalog global invasive insect spread and impact….
Yahoo News: Twitter And Google News, New Tools In The Fight Against Invasive Insects
An article on the use of GDELT with Twitter and Google News to catalog global invasive insect spread and impact….
Spinmeisters Of Russia: British Interference With Russian Interests In Central Asia In The Nineteenth Century
In yet another entry in Russia 24's series of documentaries on the shortcomings of its rivals, Russia 24 yesterday aired…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: A Documentary On American School Desegregation
A documentary on Russia 24 yesterday told part of the history of school desegregation in the US, part of a…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: Arkady Mamontov's "The Andromeda Strain" In The News Again
As Russia continues to falter on the battlefield, its propaganda war remains in full swing. Yesterday, Russia 24 once again…
NC State University: Tweets, News Offer Insights On Invasive Insect Spread
A press release by North Carolina State University discusses a new study using GDELT to track insect invasions: Invasion by…
Visual Explorer: Quick Workflow For Downloading Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian Transcripts & Translations
In November we announced the availability of 1.4 million minutes of machine transcribed Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian television news broadcasts…
Visual Explorer: Nine Months Of Ukraine's Espreso Translated Into English
We are excited to announce that the complete April 26, 2022 to December 31, 2022 archive of the Ukrainian TV…
Joint Research Centre: Euro Area Macro-Economic Nowcasting Datasets
The underlying datasets from the paper "Testing Big Data in a Big Crisis: Nowcasting under COVID-19" are continually updated, including…
Economic Indicators: TV News Is Starting To Talk About Bankruptcy Again
In the aftermath of the 2008 recession, TV news began covering bankruptcy heavily – finally tapering off in mid-2014, with…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: "The Bone Collector" & Russia's Promoted Narrative Of An American Mercenary In Ukraine
Russian domestic media is a world filled to the brim with parallel narratives, some crafted domestically and others sourced from…
Visual Explorer: Nine Months Of Russia 1 & Russia 24 Translated Into English
Russian television news channels Russia 1 and Russia 24 offer a unique lens into how the Russian government is narrating…
Visual Explorer: All Of November 2022 Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian Broadcasts Translated Into English
Yesterday we announced that all of the December 2022 Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian broadcasts in the Visual Explorer have now…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: How Russian Spun Drone Footage Into A Story Of War Crimes Before Quickly Dropping It
At 8:10PM Moscow time on December 6th, Russian channel Russia 24 introduced what ordinarily would be a major story in…
A Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Visual Explorer's Fully Automated Transcription & Translation Workflow
Earlier today we announced that we have transcribed and translated all of the December 2022 broadcasts from 1TV, NTV, Russia…
Visual Explorer: All Of December 2022 Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian Broadcasts Translated Into English
We are immensely excited to announce that to ring in the new year, we have completed translation into English of…
Spinmeisters Of Russia: How Russia Presents Itself As Investigator Of War Crimes By Others
In the parallel universe of Russian media, the narrative being presented to the Russian public is that it is Russia…
December 2022 Collection Of Time-Aligned Translated Transcripts For Russia 1 & Russia 24
As we continue to scale up our experiments with time-aligned translated transcripts in the Visual Explorer, we have translated the…
More Translation Alignment Complexities: Verb- Vs Negation-Centric Reordering
Order-mismatched languages pose a number of complications to translation alignment. One area of especial concern surrounds negation. Some languages place…
Mapping A Country Image From Global News Reports About COVID-19 Pandemic
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has infected hundreds of millions of people worldwide and caused…
The Complexities Of Aligning Translations Between Order-Mismatched Languages
Earlier this week we unveiled our new work on high-precision alignment of English translations of Russian and Ukrainian television news…
Plant Pest Invasions, As Seen Through News And Social Media
Invasion by exotic pests into new geographic areas can cause major disturbances in forest and agricultural systems. Early response can…
infoDOCKET: GDELT Visual Explorer Launches Live Demo of Time-Aligned Translated Transcript
Gary Price's infoDOCKET mentions the new Visual Explorer work on translated transcription of television news. Read The Full Article.