Powered by the ctrl semantic engine, ctrl-news is an online service that can be viewed as a “customized news homepage” for its users. The ctrl-News home page allows users to filter news semantically and topically, depending on their preferred and customized subject(s) of interest. Moreover, users can see an automatically-generated summary, as well as the entities and the key topics (disambiguated) for every news article received.

ctrl-news is not only powered by the ctrl semantic engine, it was actually created by the same team who created ctrl to show ONE possible application that can be built on top of their semantic engine ctrl – the first product of the Research and Development group at PRAGMATECH.

Click on the "FREE Sign Up" button and fill in the required fields in the personal settings. You also need to provide ctrl-news with at least one subject of interest that you like to follow.

ctrl-News relies on heavy semantic analysis of the text that comprises your subjects of interest in order to find the most related articles from everyday's news. Knowing that, it is recommended to enter at least 80 words in each subject of interest to ensure best results.

Click on the "forgot my password" link on top , and provide us with either your username or email. We will reset your password and send you a new one to your registered email.

ctrl-News results are all automatically generated by the ctrl semantic engine, and, therefore, rely totally on the topical similarity between the entered subject of interest and the processed news articles. Therefore, in some cases, the returned articles do not match the user's expectations – although we are certain that our accuracy in determining topic relevancy is extremely high. Please use the feedback functionality to report such cases helping us accordingly to improve the existing system.

ctrl-News uses the ctrl semantic engine to process each subject of interest you enter. It then tries to find the most related articles from the processed news articles based on their topical similarity (in addition to other subtle document attributes). By topical similarity we mean that the main topics of the subject of interest are similar to the ones of these articles. Accordingly, you might receive articles that are discussing the same topic with different 'players' (location, people, etc). Please use the feedback functionality to report the cases where you didn't find the results relevant.

Currently 2 weeks. However, we may prolong this period in the future if enough users deemed this necessary.

The Entities section displays all the 'names' of things that ctrl automatically identified in the text along with their specific type and definition. These include names of Agencies, Associations, Awards, Brands, Companies, Consumer products, Diseases, Educational institutes, Events, Medicines, Organizations, Outlets, People, Political events, Political group, Publication, Software systems, Teams, Tournaments, Websites, gadgets.

We currently retrieve articles from English and French sources, translate them using Bing Translator, and process accordingly. Other languages will be added successively starting with Spanish, then German, Hebrew, Chinese (Simplified), Arabic, Russian, Swedish, etc.

Users do not need to specify their subjects of interest in other languages in order to receive multilingual results, multilingual results are retrieved for all users.

Pragmatech’s ctrl team is currently working on another application that can showcase their ctrl engine’s superiority in semantic analysis through semantic push of ads on ctrl-News. This functionality will be free of charge and very easy to use. Stay posted!!!

The list of media sources we fetch news from can be found in the Newsroom section. However, this list contains more detailed information of the RSS feeds ctrl-news fetches from each of these news sources.

We welcome all suggestions and we will try to process all requests. Clearly, multiple requests for the same news source will receive more consideration than others.

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