Personalised news content programming

Project Information

PENG

Grant agreement ID: 004597

Project closed

Start date 1 September 2004

End date 31 August 2006

Funded under

• Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Total cost € 1 766 276,00

EU contribution € 1 124 903,00

Coordinated by

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Italy

Objective

The PENG project aims at defining a flexible, personalised and context-aware system for the gathering, filtering, retrieval and presentation of multimedia news for news professionals (e.g. journalists and editors), with a view of making the system also available later for general users. In this context, with the term news we refer to any kind of news, including information regarding leisure and entertainment.

The system is conceived as a personal assistant, supporting journalists in all stages of the news lifecycle. Information (text, images, and videos) is gathered from different sources (including the Web) using a combination of push and pull technologies and presented to the user in a personalised way. In the push phase a filtering approach will be developed, by means of which a first selection of news from newswires and local and online archives will be accomplished. This filtering will be based both on a dynamic user profile and on the personal user's trust in the information sources.

This last aspect will be managed by means of trust scores which are dynamically modified based on user feedback. In the pull phase a user query and the user profile will be used to retrieve further and more specific information from the same source used in the pull phase, but also from additional sources automatically selected in relation to the content of the query and the user profile. This will be done by means of a distributed information retrieval approach, where the query can be automatically generated from user feedback on the information presented by the pull phase.

Therefore, by using the PENG system, both information professionals, such as journalists or editors, and general users of news services can programme the content of the required service by adaptively tuning the contribution of the distinct sources to their information retrieval needs. This is done by both using a time-dependent user profile, and by means of the distinct trust scores of the information sources.

Fields of science

• social sciences › media and communications › journalism

Programme(s)

• FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Topic(s)

• IST-2002-2.3.2.7 - Cross-media content for leisure and entertainment

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project

Coordinator

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: PIAZZALE ALDO MORO 7 ; 00185 ROMA ; Italy
• Total cost: No data

Participants (5)

ATOS ORIGIN SOCIEDAD ANONIMA ESPANOLA

Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: CALLE DE ALBARRACIN 25 ; 28037 MADRID
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SCHWEIZERISCHE RADIO- UND FERNSEHGESELLSCHAFT - SOCIETE SUISSE DE RADIODIFFUSION ET TELEVISION - SOCIETA SVIZZERA DI RADIOTELEVISIONE

Switzerland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: VIA CANEVASCINI ; 6900 LUGANO
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UNIVERSITA DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA

Switzerland

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: VIA LAMBERTENGHI 10 A ; 6900 LUGANO
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UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER GRENOBLE 1

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 621 AVENUE CENTRALE - DOMAINE UNIVERSITAIRE ; 38400 SAINT MARTIN D'HERES
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: RICHMOND STREET 16 ; G1 1XQ GLASGOW
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