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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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Behind The Scenes: Using The GCS Byte Range Selector To Reduce 500TB Of Network Bandwidth To 700GB

We have an inventory of around 500TB of TAR files containing 1fps frame samples of all 7 million television news…

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How Television News Story Segmentation Could Be Used To Help Citizens Connect With Their Local Governments

Local municipalities all across the United States hold a range of meetings, debates, hearings, press conferences, public comment opportunities and…

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Prosperity and Posturing: New research uncovers domestic drivers of international aggression

"New research by Dr Ashani Amarasinghe, from the University of Sydney School of Economics, sheds light on how governments use…

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Story Segmentation Of TV News: Testing On Evening News Broadcasts From A Decade & A Half Ago

Our new television news story segmentation workflow has demonstrated remarkably accurate results in our tests thus far, matching and even…

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Using Gemini 2.5's Structured Outputs To Enforce Consistent Stable JSON Output For Story Segmentation

One key challenge with our new Gemini 2.5-based television news story segmentation initiative has lain in coaxing Gemini to produce…

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Story Segmentation Of TV News: Segmenting A Week Of Evening TV News Into Stories & Adding Links To Each Clip

Earlier this week we showcased how accurately Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking was able to segment American television evening news broadcasts…

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Story Segmentation Of TV News: A First Glimpse At Cataloging The Major Congressional Debates From CSPAN

Two years ago we explored how LLMs could help America's citizenry better understand the functioning of their government by distilling…

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Story Segmentation Of TV News: Experimenting With A Broader Array Of Show Types

Given Gemini's success at segmenting evening news broadcasts into their underlying stories, how well does it perform on a broader…

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Snopes: Fact Check: Yes, video shows Trump stumbling up steps to Air Force One

Snopes uses the TV News Archive to verify a video of President Trump stumbling on the Air Force One stairs….

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Story Segmentation Of TV News: Experimenting With Persian & Russian Broadcasts & English Translations

Continuing our series segmenting television news broadcasts into their underlying stories, yesterday we demonstrated that Gemini yields human-level segmentation accuracy…