Use of place information for improved event tracking

  • Authors:
  • Yun Jin;Sung Hyon Myaeng;Yuchul Jung

  • Affiliations:
  • Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea;Information and Communications University, Daejeon, South Korea;Information and Communications University, Daejeon, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: AIRS2005: Information retrieval research in Asia
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The main purpose of topic detection and tracking (TDT) is to detect, group, and organize newspaper articles reporting on the same event. Since an event is a reported occurrence at a specific time and place and the unavoidable consequences, TDT can benefit from an explicit use of time and place information. In this work, we focused on place information, using time information as in the previous research. News articles were analyzed for their characteristics of place information, and a new topic tracking method was proposed to incorporate the analysis results on place information. Experiments show that appropriate use of place information extracted automatically from news articles indeed helps event tracking that identify news articles reporting on the same events.