Composite Events: A Fact-based Representation

Nakashole, Ndapandula

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Title

Composite Events: A Fact-based Representation

Author(s)

Nakashole, Ndapandula

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• information seeking/retrieval
• text/data/knowledge mining

Abstract

For any given newsworthy event, thousands of articles, blog posts, micro-blog posts and social network status updates are often published about it. This is an overload to a reader who wants to quickly grasp the key aspects of an event. Addressing this requires a representation that characterizes events in a succinct yet descriptive manner. This poster proposes a fact-based event representation. Methods from prior work mostly generate events as clusters of related entities. No explicit semantic relations between the entities are given. Thus the entity-based representation exhibits succinctness but lacks descriptiveness. Preliminary experiments show the potential of a fact-based event representation.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

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