Romina Gersuni, Global Strategy Manager, pressrelations GmbH
Romina Gersuni, Global Strategy Manager at pressrelations GmbH shares in this post her views on human and machine intelligence, how Artificial Intelligence is affecting media monitoring, what are the main advantages and disadvantages of programmatic technology and introduces us to the Multisensor project and how it affects our industry.
Q: The pairing of human and machine intelligence! What is your experience with Artificial Intelligence and how does it affect media monitoring?
RG: pressrelations believes in a hybrid approach. Therefore, our AI technologies serve as a support for the human analyst. We have integrated machine intelligence into our back-end solution PR-Office, for example. PR-Office supports the editorial teams along the management, validation and categorization of data, and this process can be done in an automatic, semi-automatic or manual workflow. The human analyst is responsible for a highly qualitative analysis and results.
In a concrete sense, pressrelations uses AI for automatic content extraction of text documents. Here, different methods of Natural Language Processing (NLP) are used for:
- Article selection
- Topic clustering
- Article categorization
- Plagiarism detection
- Keyword extraction
- Named entity recognition (NER)
- Quote extraction
- Sentiment analysis
Thus, AI is already affecting our industry helping us to work in an increasingly efficient manner, reducing production times, enabling more attention to details and granting all teams a chance to renew their efforts towards the addition of real value to the data.
Q: Programmatic technology scales through automation and it is getting smarter and better over time as it collects more data. What do you believe are the main advantages and disadvantages of programmatic technology?
RG: The media intelligence industry has been in a race towards automated or programmatic solutions, and indeed this kind of solutions can make processes more effective, as long as the right data is applied.
Some of the positive effects of programmatic technologies include the chance of narrowing the target data accordingly and learning from the client usage. This technologies include behavioral targeting capabilities (through cookies), and thereof they are extremely useful once applied to the clients’ front-end solution (e.g., Google Analytics).
At the same time in terms of the behavioral targeting capabilitiesthe cross-device efficiency of programmatic technologies is challenged. And if your company is focusing on ad targeting, fraud is still a big problem (URL masking), therefore a fraud monitoring program should be included in such systems.
Q: pressrelations participates in the Multisensor EU funded research project. Can you please explain us what this project is about, what is your role in this project and how will it affect media monitoring?
RG: MULTISENSOR aims at advancing the research and development of multilingual media analysis technologies for the support of media monitoring companies, SMEs and journalists. The project started in 11/2013 and is running for 3 years, carried out by a consortium of nine international partners such as EURECAT, Ontotext, and Linguatec.
Within this project seven major technological fields are being developed: Automated translation, speech-to-text conversion, summarization, topic clustering, contextual information, sentiment analysis and semantic search options.
pressrelations has a multifaceted role in the project and is in charge of use case design, system development and evaluation. Furthermore, pressrelations will lead the exploitation activities.
About Romina Gersuni
Romina Gersuni is pressrelations‘s Global Strategy Manager. She has more than ten years of experience in the media intelligence industry. Since 2013 she has been part of pressrelations where she consolidated the company’s software business division “iCon” (International Connections). As head of iCon Romina is responsible for improving strategies, products, and partnerships as well as for commercializing pressrelations’s software solutions. Romina holds a degree in Business Administration and attended postgraduate studies in International Economic Relations at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Find Romina on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Since 2001 pressrelations has become one of Germany’s leading providers for media monitoring, media analysis, and communication controlling. Thanks to our deep client and market understanding we have been able to develop cutting-edge software that media intelligence companies worldwide use as a white label solution. Our hightechnological capability and a large in-house development team allow us to offer a wide range of integrated, modular and tailor-made software solutions. pressrelations is an active member of FIBEP, the world’s media intelligence federation. Connect with pressrelations on Twitter and Facebook and follow their news on their blog.
