[jawrainey]

Really great idea, thanks for sharing! I do wonder, is this really annotated feeds?

For me, this is machine-curated feeds rather than a form of annotation given no additional information (besides meta-data scrapped and categorised) is displayed. Not quite as catchy, but annotations make me (at least) think of something else.

Note: am passionated about designing to support annotations on media directly.

[lrei]

Afaik there is no meta data scrapped (technically I think some HTML meta tags are scrapped but not sure if used).

There is machine-learning in the annotations - categories rely on a (cross lingual) text classifier, entities rely on matching to Wikipedia articles, maybe a bunch of small other things to - I don't know all the details - there are some papers published about it.

[oceanbreeze83]

interested in knowing about these papers. can you point me to some?

[pbadenski]

A query to Google Scholar and quick skimming through the papers yields this as interesting start:

Event Registry – Learning About World Events From News http://wwwconference.org/proceedings/www2014/companion/p107....

Using news articles for real-time cross-lingual event detection and filtering http://ai2-s2-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/f917/c0cff24fed1af45f94c...

[lrei]

Correct. Main author of the project is Gregor Leban:

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=5pAxBWsAAAAJ&hl=...

The original crawler (newsfeed.ijs.si) paper is from

Trampus, Mitja and Novak, Blaz: The Internals Of An Aggregated Web News Feed. Proceedings of 15th Multiconference on Information Society 2012 (IS-2012).