The first demonstrator of EUMSSI search is out for testing. Find and explore content not only in text sources but also in audiovisual data. Several modes of visualising (“widgets”) let you approach topics in a new way.

We have assembled a large collection of data around one specific topic, which is fracking. Fracking is a technique to recover gas and oil from shale rock. You can find content in various sources including Deutsche Welle (articles, audio, video), The Guardian, Die Zeit, El Pais, Le Monde, Twitter and YouTube. The EUMSSI dataset, however, is not restricted to that topic, allowing for flexibility and scalability.

Collection of people related to the search term “fracking”

How to get started?
Try and look for a term like “fracking”. Click on the different tabs to view data from different angles, for example a map view, people view or on a timeline. You want to select tweets based on polarity? Use the polarity tab to get a first impression on “positive” versus “negative” tweets. Click here for more explanation on the various widgets (PDF).

Test the demo now!

The tool deploys technologies such as:

• video analysis video recognition, face recognition, person recognition and identification, optical character recognition (OCR)
• audio analysis speech recognition, speaker recognition, speaker diarization
• text analysis named entity linking, sentiment analysis, keyphrase and topic extraction.