Publico: Facebook Is An Easy Target, But The Algorithm Shows What People Want
A lengthy feature in today's Publico (in Portuguese) includes several quotes from Kalev about social platforms. Read The Full Article.
Translingual 2.0: A New Approach To Scriptio Continua Languages
Translingual 1.0 was based on the concept of language as space-delimited sequences of discrete "words." For scriptio continua languages like…
Translingual 2.0: Burmese Language Translation
We are excited to announce that the forthcoming GDELT Translingual 2.0 platform will translate Burmese language news coverage, expanding upon…
A Real-Time Platform For Contextualized Conspiracy Theory Analysis
A fascinating paper by researchers at UCLA and Berkeley applying relationship extraction and analyzing the result in a graph context…
Translingual 2.0: Lao Language Translation
We are excited to announce that the forthcoming GDELT Translingual 2.0 platform will translate Lao language news coverage, expanding upon…
Translingual 2.0: Khmer Language Translation
We are excited to announce that the forthcoming GDELT Translingual 2.0 platform will translate Khmer language news coverage, expanding upon…
How Are Women's Rights In Afghanistan Being Covered On Television News?
How are women's rights in Afghanistan being covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of women in Afghanistan since…
Inaugural Google Cloud Innovators Champions
We're excited to announce that Kalev is part of the inaugural group of Google Cloud Innovators Champions, that "recognize[s] all…
Experiments With Machine Translation: The Perils Of Fluency
One of the most striking aspects of modern Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is the way in which even a small…
How Is China Being Covered On Television News?
How is China being covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of China across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News…
Experiments With Machine Translation: The Difficulties In Teaching Neural Machine Translation New Words
Despite its enormous fluency advantages over traditional statistical SMT systems, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems have a critical weakness: the…
FiveThirtyEight: Why Abortion May Now Motivate Democrats More Than Republicans
A new article in FiveThirtyEight references media coverage of abortion. Read The Full Article.
How Is The Supreme Court Being Covered On Television News?
How is the US Supreme Court being covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of the court across CNN,…
Experiments With Machine Translation: KWIC Through BigQuery's ML.NGRAMS
As we carefully construct the training and test corpi for our machine translation models, one tool we rely heavily upon…
FiveThirtyEight: Why Has Biden's Approval Rating Gotten So Low So Quickly?
A new analysis by FiveThirtyEight includes this fascinating comparison of television news coverage of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan compared…
How Are School Boards Being Covered On Television News?
How are school boards being covered on television news? The timeline below shows the percentage of monthly airtime across CNN, MSNBC and…
International Power Rankings: Theory And Evidence From International Exchanges
This exploration by Matteo Camboni and Michael Porcellacchia examines power rankings leveraging data from GDELT: Throughout history, countries competed with…
Experiments With Machine Translation: The Many Forms Of A Character
When working with the full extent of the world's languages represented in Unicode, one comes across myriad examples of characters…
WashPost: One Person Who Deserves Blame For Biden's Stalled Agenda Is Joe Biden
A new analysis in the Washington Post by Philip Bump includes an analysis of television news coverage of key topics…
How Is The Filibuster Being Covered On Television News?
How is the filibuster being covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of the filibuster across CNN, MSNBC and…
Experiments With Machine Translation: Grapheme Clusters
Modern English on the web typically has a one-to-one correspondence of visible characters to Unicode code points. This is not…
Experiments With Machine Translation: Case Mapping & Case Folding
The modern English language typically draws little distinction between "uppercase" and "titlecase" letters. For the most part, a "titlecased" word…
Fox News Has Mentioned Inflation Twice As Much This Year As CNN And MSNBC Combined
A recent Fox News poll showed that 82% of respondents were "very" or "extremely" concerned about inflation and increasing prices. Is that…
Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories: Tracing Misinformation Trajectories from the Fringes to the Mainstream
This book chapter examines COVID-19 misinformation: The outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by what the World…