Use the computer to sift large documents

If you are into investigative journalism you should check this out:http://www.scribd.com/doc/230605794/Natural-Language-Processing-in-Investigative-Journalism;Natural Language Processing in Investigative Journalism Journalists frequently have far too many documents to read manually, whether it's a 10,000 page response to a Freedom of Information Request or 250,000 leaked diplomatic cables. We've spent the last three years applying NLP and visualization techniques to this problem, building a system called Overview which has now been used by journalists all over the world. In this talk I'll show you exactly how Overview's language processing pipeline works.