Selecting Labels for News Document Clusters

This work deals with determination of meaningful and terse cluster labels for News document clusters. We analyze a number of alternatives for selecting headlines and/or sentences of document in a document cluster (obtained as a result of an entity-event-duration query), and formalize an approach to extracting a short phrase from well-supported headlines/sentences of the cluster that can serve as the cluster label. Our technique maps a sentence into a set of significant stems to approximate its semantics, for comparison. Eventually a cluster label is extracted from a selected headline/sentence as a contiguous sequence of words, resuscitating word sequencing information lost in the formalization of semantic equivalence.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: NLDB
• Authors: Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Trivikram Immaneni, Mastan Vali Shaik
• Keywords: Cluster Label, Document Cluster, Information System, NLDB 2007, Terse Cluster Labels