A tool to help solve cyber crimes

Leila Kosseim, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and one of the lead researchers at Concordia’s Computational Linguistics Laboratory, discusses the BlogSum system in UPI. She explains that BlogSum is a computing system that gauges things like consumer preferences and voter intentions by sorting through websites, examining real-life self-expression and conversation, and producing summaries. Coverage also appears in L’Atelier,  PCWorld, OverlockersClub, Radio Canada International and Interactive Intelligence.