@inproceedings{lefever-hoste-2016-classification,
title = "A Classification-based Approach to Economic Event Detection in {D}utch News Text",
author = "Lefever, Els and
Hoste, V{\'e}ronique",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'16)",
month = may,
year = "2016",
address = "Portoro{\v{z}}, Slovenia",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/L16-1051",
pages = "330--335",
abstract = "Breaking news on economic events such as stock splits or mergers and acquisitions has been shown to have a substantial impact on the financial markets. As it is important to be able to automatically identify events in news items accurately and in a timely manner, we present in this paper proof-of-concept experiments for a supervised machine learning approach to economic event detection in newswire text. For this purpose, we created a corpus of Dutch financial news articles in which 10 types of company-specific economic events were annotated. We trained classifiers using various lexical, syntactic and semantic features. We obtain good results based on a basic set of shallow features, thus showing that this method is a viable approach for economic event detection in news text.",
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%T A Classification-based Approach to Economic Event Detection in Dutch News Text
%A Lefever, Els
%A Hoste, Véronique
%S Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16)
%D 2016
%8 may
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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%F lefever-hoste-2016-classification
%X Breaking news on economic events such as stock splits or mergers and acquisitions has been shown to have a substantial impact on the financial markets. As it is important to be able to automatically identify events in news items accurately and in a timely manner, we present in this paper proof-of-concept experiments for a supervised machine learning approach to economic event detection in newswire text. For this purpose, we created a corpus of Dutch financial news articles in which 10 types of company-specific economic events were annotated. We trained classifiers using various lexical, syntactic and semantic features. We obtain good results based on a basic set of shallow features, thus showing that this method is a viable approach for economic event detection in news text.
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%P 330-335
Markdown (Informal)
[A Classification-based Approach to Economic Event Detection in Dutch News Text](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1051) (Lefever & Hoste, LREC 2016)
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