Smartsearch for Newsroom Editors

The editors for the daily TV news have to edit new media productions several times a day in a very short time. For this task they want to re-use Media Fragments such as text, pictures, video snippets from available archives. One main challenge for the editor is the retrieval of fragments relevant to the current working focus. Therefore Condat offers the SmartSearch based on the Condat Smart Media Engine, which is demonstrated in the following. Lets start by looking at the Smart Search module. Imagine this scenario: An editor is working on an article. She uses the SmartSearch to find suitable Media Fragments for her new media production. The news editor opens the application to retrieve Media fragments related to the current working focus. The editor types the topic for the production into the search bar on the left side. For instance about renewable energy. A specific production is opened, by selecting one of the listed media items. On the right appears a short description for the new media production. The left column shows the most relevant tags of the video news description. Then, the editor can retrieve the Media Fragments most related to the focussed subject from archives. The recommender function returns a ranked list of video fragments concerning this subject. The best ranked video comes first. See the ranking value in blue. Let us take a brief look at the video player. It displays the Media Fragments with begin and end time in the status bar. They are also indicated in this area of the slider bar. Furthermore a thumbnail displays the first image of the fragment. You play the video fragment, by clicking on the play button. I would argue that we need to focus on the fact that hydro power needs to be an important part of this entire discussion. On the right the meta data of the Media Fragment are displayed. These are for instance the relevance value, also known as the ranking value, the fragment times, the description and the matching keywords. Moreover the information about the parent video is shown. The relevance of the Media Fragments is mainly assessed by matching keywords of the fragment description and the matching keywords of the opened news production description. Which are listed in the tag area. The algorithm does not only consider identical keywords, but also semantically related expressions.The keywords, which caused the ranking of the Media Fragment are marked yellow.In addition, keywords of the same shot and adjacent sentences of the same speaker may influence the relevance. Finally the editor can select suitable Media Fragments to integrate them into her news room tool. There she can possibly edit them and finally create a new media production. Now you have an idea of the features offered by the SmartSearch module. For more information visit the condat website.