Topic Extraction from News Archive Using TF*PDF Algorithm

Busy and no time to digest the news archive .... ? Ever since the Web wide-spreading, the amount of electronically available information online, especially news archive proliferates and threatens to overwhelm human attention. Seeing this, we propose an information system that will extract the main topics in the news archive in a weekly basis. By getting a weekly report, user can know what were the main news events in the past week.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: WISE
• Authors: Khoo Khyou Bun, Mitsuru Ishizuka
• Keywords: Human Attention, Internet Technology, Main Topics, Weekly Basis, WISE 2002