Clustering Sentences for Discovering Events in News Articles

We investigate the use of clustering methods for the task of grouping the text spans in a news article that refer to the same event. We provide evidence that the order in which events are described is structured in a way that can be exploited during clustering. We evaluate our approach on a corpus of news articles describing events that have occurred in the Iraqi War.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ECIR
• Authors: Martina Naughton, Nicholas Kushmerick, Joe Carthy
• Keywords: Articles Describing Events, ECIR 2006, Information Technology, Structured, Text Spans