News Article Retrieval in Context for Event-centric Narrative Creation
Nikos Voskarides, Edgar Meij, Sabrina Sauer, Maarten de Rijke
Abstract
Writers such as journalists often use automatic tools to find relevant content to include in their narratives. In this paper, we focus on supporting writers in the news domain to develop event-centric narratives. Given an incomplete narrative that specifies a main event and a context, we aim to retrieve news articles that discuss relevant events that would enable the continuation of the narrative. We formally define this task and propose a retrieval dataset construction procedure that relies on existing news articles to simulate incomplete narratives and relevant articles. Experiments on two datasets derived from this procedure show that state-of-the-art lexical and semantic rankers are not sufficient for this task. We show that combining those with a ranker that ranks articles by reverse chronological order outperforms those rankers alone. We also perform an in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis of the results that sheds light on the characteristics of this task.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.in2writing-1.10
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the First Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing 2022)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Editors:
- Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang, Vipul Raheja, Dongyeop Kang, John Joon Young Chung, Daniel Gissin, Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero
- Venue:
- In2Writing
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 72–73
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.in2writing-1.10
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.in2writing-1.10
- Cite (ACL):
- Nikos Voskarides, Edgar Meij, Sabrina Sauer, and Maarten de Rijke. 2022. News Article Retrieval in Context for Event-centric Narrative Creation. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing 2022), pages 72–73, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- News Article Retrieval in Context for Event-centric Narrative Creation (Voskarides et al., In2Writing 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/improve-issue-templates/2022.in2writing-1.10.pdf
- Code
- nickvosk/ictir2021-news-retrieval-in-context