Cheap translation

Automated question answering

Visualizing communities

Cheap Translation

“It’s the dirty little secret of foreign correspondents. We wouldn’t know where to start without first reading the local papers.”

- Jeff Israely, European correspondent for TIME

Computer question answering

“DeepQA is developed using Apache UIMA, aframework implementation of the Unstructured Information Management Architecture.”

- Bulding Watson, Ferruci et. al.

Community visualization

“[When] the stories in the ’90s had come out, the audience of the story was Bostonians, whether Catholic or no.

But in 2002, the audience was Catholics whether Bostonian or no.”

- Clay Shirky, on the Boston Globe’s investigations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church

The public information ecosystem is evolving fast.

This is much bigger than “journalism.”

Maybe we need new definitions.