The NEWS Project Consortium

The NEWS consortium comprises two leading European news agencies and three research&development partners with clearly defined expertise.

The partners are (in the numbering sequence of the contract):


Name

Role in the Project



German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence – DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Project Coordinator;

Technology Provider;

Scientific Exploitation & Dissemination



Ontology Ltd., Israel

(Software development company)

Technology Provider (Text Analysis Framework Software);

Support to technical project coordination;

Commercial Exploitation



Agenzia ANSA S. C. A R. L., Italy

(News agency)

Content Provider;

User partner;

Value Generation by internal exploitation of project results



Agencia EFE S.A., Spain

(News agency)

User partner;

Requirements definition;

Result evaluation



UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID, Spain

(University research institute)

Technology Provider (Semantic Web Technologies);

Scientific Exploitation & Dissemination





FP6-001906 NEWS is funded by

semantic-based knowledge services