Lydia: A System for Large-Scale News Analysis

Periodical publications represent a rich and recurrent source of knowledge on both current and historical events. The Lydia project seeks to build a relational model of people, places, and things through natural language processing of news sources and the statistical analysis of entity frequencies and co-locations. Lydia is still at a relatively early stage of development, but it is already producing interesting analysis of significant volumes of text. Indeed, we encourage the reader to visit our website (http://www.textmap.com) to see our analysis of recent news obtained from over 500 daily online news sources.