Event Detection with Burst Information Networks

Tao Ge, Lei Cui, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, Ming Zhou


Abstract
Retrospective event detection is an important task for discovering previously unidentified events in a text stream. In this paper, we propose two fast centroid-aware event detection models based on a novel text stream representation – Burst Information Networks (BINets) for addressing the challenge. The BINets are time-aware, efficient and can be easily analyzed for identifying key information (centroids). These advantages allow the BINet-based approaches to achieve the state-of-the-art performance on multiple datasets, demonstrating the efficacy of BINets for the task of event detection.
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C16-1309
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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3276–3286
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Tao Ge, Lei Cui, Baobao Chang, Zhifang Sui, and Ming Zhou. 2016. Event Detection with Burst Information Networks. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 3276–3286, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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