News in volume

In Yandex.News , pages of news stories, which are collections of media materials about events, began to look in a new way. From now on, the presentation of the incident is more voluminous, the company said. This is achieved by combining basic facts, illustrations and background information.

In the news selections priority is given to informative, operational and exclusive news. The plots are illustrated with photographs and maps, if geographic objects are mentioned in the news. From the names of the main characters of the plot, you can go to their press portraits .

“Of all the messages of the plot, the most significant objects are automatically distinguished - the names of people, the names of organizations, geographical objects, dates and numbers,” said Lev Gershenzon, the leading developer of Yandex. “They, along with keywords and news inquiries, determine the choice of texts for annotation.” Innovation, he said, continues the development of clustering algorithms, automatic annotation and extraction of facts used in Yandex.News.
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Currently, the Yandex.News service on a contractual basis cooperates with 1,700 sources, processing 100,000 messages daily.