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ECIR 2006: Advances in Information Retrieval pp 535–538Cite as

Clustering Sentences for Discovering Events in News Articles

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We investigate the use of clustering methods for the task of grouping the text spans in a news article that refer to the same event. We provide evidence that the order in which events are described is structured in a way that can be exploited during clustering. We evaluate our approach on a corpus of news articles describing events that have occurred in the Iraqi War.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland

    Martina Naughton, Nicholas Kushmerick & Joe Carthy

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK

    Mounia Lalmas

  2. Department of Information Science, City University, Northampton Square, EC1V OHB, London, UK

    Andy MacFarlane

  3. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK

    Stefan Rüger

  4. Queen Mary University of London, UK

    Anastasios Tombros

  5. CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Theodora Tsikrika

  6. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Alexei Yavlinsky

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Naughton, M., Kushmerick, N., Carthy, J. (2006). Clustering Sentences for Discovering Events in News Articles. In: Lalmas, M., MacFarlane, A., Rüger, S., Tombros, A., Tsikrika, T., Yavlinsky, A. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3936. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_59

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_59

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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