The purpose of
Yandex’s service today is to distinguish rumors from facts. The new service
"Quotes in the news" allows you to search for the statements of people in the media.
According to the company, the statements that are most popular in the last 24 hours are collected on the main page of the service, presenting a “news picture of the day in direct speech of the main characters”. The service uses the technology of extracting the facts developed in “Yandex” - the Press Portraits service also functions on it.
In fact, “Quotes in the news” provide an opportunity to quickly find out what a particular person said on a given topic: on the service page there are two search windows, in one of which the user drives personalities, in the other - the key word defining the subject of the statement. An example is Vladimir Putin’s
quotation about a successor.
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“We hope that our new service will be useful to anyone who is used to receiving a voluminous news picture, who are interested in various comments and assessments of current events,” said Lev Gershenzon, the leading developer of the company. - Search for quotes in the news will help to distinguish rumors from the facts, to get to the source. In addition, public figures often say things absurd and comical, and the search for all kinds of pearls can be a fun game. ”
It is reported that the syntax analyzer and the processing module of predicative constructions with communicative verbs and turns are at the core of the technology for isolating quotations. In this case, both direct speech in quotes and indirect speech are distinguished.
In addition, the extraction of facts with quotations of a person in combination with the analysis of complete news reports allows the system to accurately distinguish namesakes in determining authorship - even if the sentence with the quote contains no additional information other than the first and last name.
“Quotes are another important type of information about a newsmaker,” reports Yandex. - From the personal press portrait, you can go to all the quotes of a person. And vice versa - for each author to see his quotes in press portraits. ”
In total, the system contains about 3.5 million citations of more than 600 thousand authors.