📅 2024-06-09 — Session: Automated News Article Processing Pipeline Completion

🕒 16:30–18:30
🏷️ Labels: News Processing, Automation, NLP, BERT, Data Extraction
📂 Project: Media
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The primary goal of this session was to finalize the development of an automated pipeline for processing news articles, including scraping, extraction, classification, and analysis.

Key Activities

  • Reviewed techniques for information extraction and summarization, focusing on entity recognition and data processing.
  • Planned and executed workflows for web scraping using Newspaper3k and database setup for storing extracted data.
  • Implemented initial news scraping and extraction workflows in Python, with future NLP tasks planned.
  • Analyzed article titles related to Argentine politics, categorizing them into key themes.
  • Developed a classification system for news articles using BERT, with storage in BigQuery.
  • Addressed Python library warnings and import errors related to BERT model deployment.
  • Managed disk space using Linux command line tools.
  • Fine-tuned BERT for sequence classification.

Achievements

  • Successfully set up an automated pipeline for news article processing.
  • Completed article fetching, content extraction, and classification.

Pending Tasks

  • Future enhancements include implementing entity recognition and summarization techniques.

Future Steps

  • Continue refining the classification system and explore additional NLP tasks.
  • Optimize media strategies and AI project objectives using structured checklists.