Laboratory 3. EMM-News explorer -Business Intelligence System
Introduction
In this laboratory we carry out
exercises with EMM-News
explorer and Google Reader.
In this laboratory we will survey a number of news channels with the
EMM
News explorer and News brief. EMM News explorer surveys
thousand news
channels with
over several thousands news articles per day. But is there any
valuable
information
there? We will use the search engine of EMM News explorer to
investigate what
we to find, but we will also survey the channels to see if anything
valuable will be catched. You can always custom
EMM-News explorer and News brief to search your own language and
country.
With Google Reader you will self customize
Google reader and add your own news sources.
Summary of task
EMM News Explorer and News brief
(News Brief
Help)
1) Search (Advanced search) for some recent news or event with EMM
News brief
2) Is there stemming?
3) Is there spelling support?
4) How is Boolean search implemented in the advanced search? Hint, it
is hidden in the different search modes of the advanced search.
5) How long time back in time does the news archive stretch? Hint, try
to search on old news
6) Search for old news in one or several languages. Describe what you
get!
7) How many news sources and languages can you search among?
EMM News Explorer (News
explorer help)
8) Now you can leave advanced search and study EMM News Explorer main
menu. What do you see and what can you do?
You can custom EMM News explorer to survey on your own local language
and country. Please do so or just use English.
10) Survey some recent topic that interests you. What can you see?
Trends, groups, persons, relations?
11) Can you search for several languages in the same time and get
the answers grouped in different languages?
12) Can you translate the news articles? Which tool is used for that?
13) Is there a news alert?
14) Propose some improvements on EMM News explorer and News Brief
Google Reader
To logon Google Reader
you need a Google account. Get one and
logon
Google Reader. Add some RSS-feeds or just news sites, do the
tasks 1-14 above.
Extra task if you have spare time.
Try the Retriever
Business Intelligence system, with the above tasks. Observe that you
only can use Retriever for free at university. Just press login without
writing user name or pass word.
Written statement
Write one to a half A4 page of what you did and your observations and
reflections during the steps 1-14 in the laboratory. All answers must
be clearly motivated and supported by your experiments. Questions
about the laboratory can be asked to the laboratory assistant during
the laboratory. Remember that a written statement is compulsory to be
approved of the laboratory.
Latest change 2009-10-20
by Hercules Dalianis