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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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Russian TV News Continues With Its False "Ukrainian Nazis" Narrative

Far from abandoning its false "Ukrainian Nazis" narrative, Russian state television news continues to use this characterization, with a single…

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New Visual Explorer Demonstration Of Time-Aligned Translated Transcript

Leveraging our new high-precision timecode alignment of machine translation and transcription using Google's Speech-to-Text and Translation APIs, we are excited…

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Experiments With In-Browser Speech Synthesis For Reading Translated Transcripts

As we continue to explore fully automated transcription + translation pipelines for Russian and Ukrainian television news, a natural question…

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Tomorrow: New Visual Explorer Demonstration Of Transcript Translation With High Precision Timecode Support

Yesterday we unveiled a new demonstration of high-precision timecode alignment of machine transcription + translation of Russian television news broadcasts,…