Korean Press Foundation's 'BigKinds' Service Revamped, Offering 'News Viewed as Candidates'

News Analysis Service BigKinds Launches New Services Including 'News Viewed as Candidates' and 'Automated Analysis Report'

BigKinds 'News Viewed as Candidates'

The Korea Press Foundation (Chairman Min Byung-wook, hereinafter the Foundation) is launching a newly revamped version of its news big data analysis system, the ‘BIGKINDS’ service, today (the 6th).

The revamped BIGKINDS offers ‘News Viewed by Candidates,’ which allows users to see information about candidates who ran in the April 15 general election and related news at a glance. Candidate information is provided by the National Election Commission, and the service visualizes various data including basic information of candidates by election, party, and region, as well as analysis results of news reports related to individual candidates. This makes it easier for voters to find candidate-related information and issues, which is expected to greatly assist in exercising voting rights properly.

The ‘News Automatic Analysis Report Service,’ where users simply enter desired keywords and click the generate button, automatically creates explanations of search and visualization analysis results. It also includes editing and download functions, making it useful not only for the media, academia, and government agencies but also for businesses. Additionally, it supports editorial and contributor search services.

The accuracy of language analysis has also been significantly improved. By applying the artificial intelligence language model ‘BERT,’ homonyms that were previously indistinguishable can now be differentiated, and recognition of variant forms has been enhanced using knowledge networks. Improvements in the extraction methods for neologisms, compound nouns, and quotations have dramatically increased the quality of news search and analysis.

* Homonyms: Words that sound the same but have different meanings. Example: company name ‘Amazon’ and region name ‘Amazon’

* Variant forms: Words with the same meaning but different appearances. Example: ‘Trump’ and ‘Donald Trump’

Furthermore, user convenience and usability have been greatly enhanced through expanded personalized support features such as news scrap folder management and the ability to immediately apply saved search formulas to news search and analysis.

Last year, the Foundation contributed to creating various social values through discovering startups, supporting data journalism reporting and research, collaborating with other institutions, and providing technical support for new service development, job creation, dissemination of public-interest reporting and research results, and solving social issues. Following the trend of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where artificial intelligence and big data technologies are recognized as new industrial engines, the creation of social value and innovative growth in public and private sectors using BIGKINDS is expected to expand further.

Meanwhile, BIGKINDS is a news analysis service launched on April 19, 2016, that combines big data technology with a news database containing 60 million articles from major domestic media outlets since the 1990s. It has provided various services such as relationship maps of people, places, and organizations in the news, records of statements by key figures, related word analysis, and regional news analysis on fine dust and inter-Korean relations.