By: E&P Staff La Stampa in Turin, Italy, is in live production with Atex text-mining capabilities incorporated into its existing Atex content-management and digital-asset-management systems.
Italy's fourth largest daily uses an Atex system installed more than 12 years ago as its central editorial and production tool. The addition of text mining provides research tools for journalists, while enabling new business opportunities.
With text mining, La Stampa can organize large quantities of information streaming into the news desk, categorizing and linking it to related content with minimal staff effort, helping to enhance searchability and increase the value to journalists and readers.
"Text mining provides a new classification process that lets us organize and tag information automatically as it arrives in the newsroom on a daily basis," IT Director Fausto Graniero said in a statement. After data are tagged, he continued, "the process of classifying and mining changes radically. Like human language, text mining can automatically generate innovative patterns to classify content [and provide] new ways to browse information for any publishing channel."
Text mining replaces manual content classification, improving data organization and content presentation. Any stored content is classified according to agreed patterns that are recognized in each document. When searching documents, text mining considers the semantic relevance of the search string and returns related content, not simply a representation of an object's recurrence, as in a Web search engine, according to Atex.
"For publishers like La Stampa, this system represents an innovative way to reduce production costs and to set up new content-based sales channels," said Gian Camillo Vezzoli, Chief Operating Officer of Atex's Southern Region.
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