Ledes, Nutgraphs, Arguments & Process.

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Overview Project

Excerpt from the blog:

Overview is an ambitious project. The prototype workflow is based on automatically clustering documents by analyzing patterns of word usage, and our results so far are very promising. But that doesn’t immediately mean that this is the direction that development should take. There is a whole universe of document and data set problems facing journalists today, and wide range of computational linguistics, visualization, and statistical methods we could try to apply. The space of possibility is huge.

But we can already say a few things about what must be accomplished for the project to be considered a success. We’re thinking not only about what must be accomplished by the end of the two-year grant, but how we’d like the project to evolve long after that. Within the space of our two year grant, we think we need to do the following things:

1. Build an active community of developers and users
2. Release production software that works well for common problems
3. Develop a core, scalable architecture that vastly increases the pace of R&D

We need your help on each of these goals, in different ways.