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Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events

Posted by samzenpus on from the what's-old-is-new dept.

hypnosec writes "Microsoft Research has teamed up with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to develop software that can predict events like outbreaks of disease or violence by mining data from old news and the web. The project, if successful, will result into a tool that would provide information that is more than just educated guesses or intuition. The team consisting of Eric Horvitz from Microsoft Research and Kira Radinsky from Technion-Israel Institute tested the program with articles from New York Times spanning over 20 years from 1986-2007."

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  1. For example, did you know... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There will be a Presidential election in 2016 and 2020

    An NFL team will win the Super Bowl.

    Many new TV shows will be cancelled each fall.

    Old people will die.

  2. Asimov was here by Minion+of+Eris · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The shade of Asimov raises his head..... Does this seem a little like Psychohistory to anyone else? Where's the Mule?

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  3. Re:Consider.. by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, the weather report for the next day is pretty accurate most of the time.

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