NewsEye Project Seeks Significant Scientific Advances in Several Directions
Juha Rautiainen, National Library of Finland
Helsinki Computational History Group

NewsEye is an inter-, multidisciplinary and multilingual research project. In the project national libraries, humanities and social science research groups and computer science research groups are addressing a number of challenges in several directions. The project was launched in May 2018 and ends in April 2021.

The project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, develops seamlessly integrated tools and methods for effective exploration and exploitation of digital newspapers by means of new technologies. The tools will address a number of challenges in text analysis, natural language processing, computational creativity and natural language generation, OCR and article separation. In digital humanities the project aims to increase availability of useful tools and possibilities of searching and browsing of huge amounts of text material, and in history the project experiments new methods of analyzing historical assets across different language corpora.

The NewsEye project brings together number of researchers and other professionals from eight different organizations from four European countries. The University of Helsinki is represented by three different research groups: computer science, digital humanities and the National Library of Finland, legally part of the university.