2010 ConnectingtheDotsBetweenNewsArt

• (Shahaf et al., 2010) ⇒ Dafna Shahaf, and Carlos Guestrin. (2010). “Connecting the Dots Between News Articles.” In: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2010). doi:10.1145/1835804.1835884

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• Categories and Subject Descriptors: I.2.6 Artificial Intelligence: Learning; G.3 Probability and Statistics.
• General Terms: Algorithms, Experimentation

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Abstract

The process of extracting useful knowledge from large datasets has become one of the most pressing problems in today's society. The problem spans entire sectors, from scientists to intelligence analysts and web users, all of whom are constantly struggling to keep up with the larger and larger amounts of content published every day. With this much data, it is often easy to miss the big picture.

In this paper, we investigate methods for automatically connecting the dots -- providing a structured, easy way to navigate within a new topic and discover hidden connections. We focus on the news domain: given two news articles, our system automatically finds a coherent chain linking them together. For example, it can recover the chain of events starting with the decline of home prices (January 2007), and ending with the ongoing health-care debate.

 We formalize the characteristics of a good chain and provide an efficient algorithm (with theoretical guarantees) to connect two fixed endpoints. We incorporate user feedback into our framework, allowing the stories to be refined and personalized. Finally, we evaluate our algorithm over real news data. Our user studies demonstrate the algorithm's effectiveness in helping users understanding the news.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2010 ConnectingtheDotsBetweenNewsArt	Dafna Shahaf Carlos Guestrin			Connecting the Dots Between News Articles		KDD-2010 Proceedings		10.1145/1835804.1835884		2010