Lydia: a system for large-scale news analysis

  • Authors:
  • Levon Lloyd;Dimitrios Kechagias;Steven Skiena

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY;Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY;Department of Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

  • Venue:
  • SPIRE'05 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Periodical publications represent a rich and recurrent source of knowledge on both current and historical events. The Lydia project seeks to build a relational model of people, places, and things through natural language processing of news sources and the statistical analysis of entity frequencies and co-locations. Lydia is still at a relatively early stage of development, but it is already producing interesting analysis of significant volumes of text. Indeed, we encourage the reader to visit our website (http://www.textmap.com) to see our analysis of recent news obtained from over 500 daily online news sources.