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At the March 16 Smart Content Summit event, Jamie Burgess, senior AI innovator and business architect for Microsoft, will share how news publishers today can make use of AI tools to keep up with the demands of journalism today.

His presentation — “How The Atlantic and other Publishers use Azure AI to Modernise Search of your Historical Data with Insights & Discovery Accelerator and Video Indexer” — will show how by leveraging the Azure AI knowledge mining solution powered by Azure Cognitive Search, AI models can identify the variety of content types and formats in a publisher’s archive, making it easy to extract insights that speed and scale the journalistic process.

“I’ll be demoing the experience of a journalist who needs to find historical context to ground their story in accurate facts. By leveraging AI we’ll be able to find a word on a page from an archived document as far back as 1901, gleam insights from large data dumps, and find a quote mentioned in a video without knowing by whom or when it was said,” Burgess said.

“Azure Cognitive services provide an extensive list of powerful AI tools, each with unique abilities; for example Object vision to describe images, hand writing recognition, translation and transcription to name a few. We have assembled them together in a meaningful way to provide a simple and seamless experience for media and journalism customers (or anyone who has an extensive collection of unstructured data they would like to make use of). “

The Smart Content Summit is produced by MESA and the Smart Content Council, and is sponsored by Microsoft Azure, Whip Media Group, Richey May Technology Solutions, BeBanjo, Digital Nirvana, Softtek, 24Notion, EIDR and Signiant.

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