NowOnWeb

NowOnWeb is a NewsIR system that deals with the on-line news sources. It supplies with an effective and efficient approach to show news articles, about a specific topic, to the user in a comfortable way.

The system was component-based designed and comprise a crawler to obtain the web-pages, an indexer to maintain the incremental index whit a temporal window, a news recognition and extraction module that enables the dynamic adding of sources, a news grouping component that uses novelty and redundancy detection approaches, and a summariser, among others...

As commercial product NowOnWeb offers:

• A web service that serves the news about the user information needs.
• A flexible and adaptable application to the needs of the users and their areas of interest.
• An efficient and scalable product with effective results.
• A component based software with modules that allows the reuse in different applications.
• A great product to the press areas of the companies and institutions that also can be adapted to other fields as technology surveillance or vertical search.