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Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0: Tracking The Coronavirus Through Google's Natural Language API

What has the Coronavirus outbreak looked like through the eyes of television news and how well has Google's Natural Language…

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Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0: Master VGEG 2.0 Captioning Entity List

Last week we released the Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0, a compilation of more than 477 million entity annotations…

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A Master Dataset Of Google Earth Appearances On Evening Television News

Following up on our analysis from earlier today tracking television news appearances of Google Earth, we've released the underlying CSV…

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Tracing How Television News Uses Google Earth To Illustrate Global Events

Over the past decade Google Earth has been a mainstay of American television news, helping audiences understand the geographic context…

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Trump's Tweets Aren't Getting The Same Television News Attention They Did In 2017

President Trump has eschewed many of the traditional presidential communications norms to speak directly to the world through his @realDonaldTrump…

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What Google's Natural Language API Sees In A Decade Of Television News: The Television News Global Entity Graph 2.0

What might it be like to use deep learning algorithms to non-consumptively "read" the closed captioning transcripts of more than…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Assessing The Semantic Visual Similarity Of A Decade Of Television Evening News

To what degree does the view we see of the world around us vary based on the media outlets we…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Using Semantic Visual Correlation To Identify Mislabeled Television Shows

The new Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0 covers more than 19 million seconds of airtime across four stations spanning ten…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Tracking Protests On The Evening News 2009-2020

Last year we used the pilot version of the Visual Global Entity Graph to track depictions of protests on the evening…

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Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0: Tracking The Increasing Presence Of Police On The Evening News

Last year we used the pilot version of the Visual Global Entity Graph to track depictions of police on the…

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What Google's Cloud Video AI Sees Watching Decade Of Television News: The Visual Global Entity Graph 2.0

UPDATE (8/7/2020): Thanks to a Google Cloud COVID-19 Research Grant to the Media-Data Research Consortium, this dataset has been vastly…

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Visualizing Part Of Speech Distribution In A Multilingual World

As of this past Friday, GDELT's Web Part Of Speech dataset now covers 11 languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English,…

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Neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) Now Updating Every Minute

The Cloud Natural Language API-powered neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) is now updating every minute, 24/7/365. Due to GDELT's current 15…

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Web Part Of Speech Dataset Now Updating Every Minute

The Cloud Natural Language API-powered Web Part of Speech dataset is now updating every minute, 24/7/365. Due to GDELT's current 15…

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Announcing The WEB-PARTOFSPEECH Dataset: 101 Billion Words Part Of Speech Tagged And Dependency Tree Parsed Using Google's NLP API

Today we are immensely excited to announce a transformative new dataset for linguistic analysis: more than 101 billion tokens (words,…

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Announcing Per-Second Television News Research Chyrons Dataset

Last month we announced a new research-grade chyron / "lower third" dataset for BBC News, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…

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Television News Spoken Word Neural Entity Graph (TV News GEG) Now Updating Daily

We're tremendously excited to announce that the television news spoken word neural entity graph announced last month has now been…

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Using The Classic Global Entity Graph (GEG) To Find Name Variants & References To Donald Trump In The News

One of the most powerful elements of the new Wikipedia-normalized classic Global Entity Graph (GEG) announced last week is its ability…

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Wikipedia Normalization Now Live For Classic Global Entity Graph (GEG) G1 Baseline 2019 Dataset

The entire January 1, 2019 – present classic Global Entity Graph (GEG) G1 baseline dataset has been updated to include…

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Neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) Historical Backfile Updated With New Language Field

As the neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) expands beyond English, earlier this week we updated its BigQuery table to add…

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Neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) Expanding Beyond English

Unlike the rest of GDELT, which live translates from 65 languages, the neural Global Entity Graph (GEG) processes only English…

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Chyron Correlation: Comparing Television News Chyrons Over The Past Three Years

Since August 2017, the Internet Archive's Television News Archive has extracted the chyrons of CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BBC…

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Using The Inference API + Cloud Video To Uncover The Visual Correlations Of A Decade Of Television News

Rather than having the Cloud Inference API surface the most significant visual labels of each day from television news of…

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A By-Station Visual Chronology Of The Top Visual Themes Of Television Evening News 2010-2019 Using Cloud Video + Inference API

Using the new visual entity graph constructed by having the Cloud Video API watch a decade of evening news broadcasts on…