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On-line new event detection using time window strategy

  • Rui Feng Xu*
  • , Wei Hua Peng
  • , Jun Xu
  • , Xiao Long
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen

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Abstract

New Event Detection is the task of automatically detecting novel events from a temporally-ordered stream of news story documents. Traditionally, on-line new event detection system determines whether the incoming document contains a new event based on the history of all processed documents. With the improvement of processed documents, the efficiency of on-line new event detection will decrease. In this paper, we apply a time window strategy to new event detection. A group of new incoming documents in the time window are firstly clustered to obtain candidate topics. Next, these candidate topics are compared with the previously identified topics to determine whether a new topic is detected. The first story of the new detected topic, in temporal order, is regarded as a new event. By analyzing the news story documents within the time window in group, the new event detection efficiency is improved. Furthermore, the evaluations show that the time window processing strategy is helpful to improve the accuracy of new event detection.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2011 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2011
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1932-1937
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781457703065
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2011 - Guilin, Guangxi, China
Duration: 10 Jul 201113 Jul 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Volume4
ISSN (Print)2160-133X
ISSN (Electronic)2160-1348

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuilin, Guangxi
Period10/07/1113/07/11

Keywords

  • Clustering
  • New Event Detection
  • Time Window

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