EventSearch: A system for event discovery and retrieval on multi-type historical data

  • Dongdong Shan
  • , Wayne Xin Zhao
  • , Rishan Chen
  • , Baihan Shu
  • , Ziqi Wang
  • , Junjie Yao
  • , Hongfei Yan*
  • , Xiaoming Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We present EventSearch, a system for event extraction and retrieval on four types of news-related historical data, i.e., Web news articles, newspapers, TV news program, and micro-blog short messages. The system incorporates over 11 million web pages extracted from "Web InfoMall", the Chinese Web Archive since 2001. The newspaper and TV news video clips also span from 2001 to 2011. The system, upon a user query, returns a list of event snippets from multiple data sources. A novel burst model is used to discover events from time-stamped texts. In addition to offline event extraction, our system also provides online event extraction to further meet the user needs. EventSearch provides meaningful analytics that synthesize an accurate description of events. Users interact with the system by ranking the identified events using different criteria (scale, recency and relevance) and submitting their own information needs in different input fields.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationKDD'12 - 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Pages1564-1567
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2012 - Beijing, China
Duration: 12 Aug 201216 Aug 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Conference

Conference18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period12/08/1216/08/12

Keywords

  • event detection
  • event search

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