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A Model For Anticipatory Event Detection, Qi He, Kuiyu Chang, Ee Peng Lim
A Model For Anticipatory Event Detection, Qi He, Kuiyu Chang, Ee Peng Lim
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Event detection is a very important area of research that discovers new events reported in a stream of text documents. Previous research in event detection has largely focused on finding the first story and tracking the events of a specific topic. A topic is simply a set of related events defined by user supplied keywords with no associated semantics and little domain knowledge. We therefore introduce the Anticipatory Event Detection (AED) problem: given some user preferred event transition in a topic, detect the occurence of the transition for the stream of news covering the topic. We confine the events to …