Hercule: a platform to help journalists detect emerging news topics, check their veracity, track an event as it unfolds and find the various angles in a story as it develops.

1. HERCULE
AI PLATFORM FOR BIG DATA
JOURNALISM
December 13, 2017
Georgi Georgiev, Ph.D.
Andrey Tagarev

2. What is Hercule?
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3. • uses AI to understand Events, People, Locations, Organisations, Dates, and
Money amounts in social media posts, news, and broadcast;
• is designed to work with Big Data sources such as YouTube, Tweeter, and
multiple news sources;
• provides access to background knowledge and open data: DBPedia,
WikiData, GeoNames, government open data and more;
• will provide scalable search and filter functionality based on concept and
faceted search;
Hercule as an AI and Big Data Platform:
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4. •lets journalists define threads by setting simple keywords;
•automatically defines stories of similar tweets, news and
videos;
•provides a dashboard to summarise all content sources and
data for a story;
•classifies stories regarding three scores:
−popularity – how influential is a story;
−veracity – how trustworthy is a story;
−checkworthyness – how likely a story can be checked against
data sources;
Hercule as a data journalism platform:
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5. What are the use
cases?
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6. • Stay apprised of the development of a topic rapidly becoming hot
• Summarize major events about long running topics
• Stimulate broad and diverse discussion about hot and emerging topics
Use cases
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7. Who is the user?
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8. Two user groups:
• Fact checking and quality assurance journalists at big public media
organisations
• Fake news enthusiasts and city journalists
User groups
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9. How it delivers
value?
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