A supervised machine learning method to classify Dutch-language news items ...

Please contact s.a.m.vermeer@uva.nl for questions or further information. Background Based on a supervised machine learning method, we developed a classifier in Python (version 3.5.2) that returns the news topic of Dutch-language news items (as a string). To train the classifier, we collected more than 1 million news items from approximately 150 different Dutch-language news websites, as well as search engines and social media, collected over 8 months in 2017/18.This tool can be used for mapping Dutch-news items into different news categories, namely: (1) Politics, which covers items about int... Mehr ...