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Constructing event evolution graphs from large news corpora.

Shi Xiaodong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-117). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / 摘要 --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Table of Contents --- p.iv / List of Tables --- p.vi / List of Figures --- p.vii / List of Figures --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.9 / Chapter 1.1. --- Background --- p.9 / Chapter 1.2. --- Research Motivation --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3. --- Research Objective --- p.14 / Chapter 1.4. --- Organization of Thesis --- p.14 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Problem Analysis and Definition --- p.15 / Chapter 2.1. --- "Definitions of Story, Event and Topic" --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2. --- Characteristics of News Stories --- p.17 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Literature Review --- p.26 / Chapter 3.1. --- Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2. --- Document Clustering Techniques --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3. --- Event Evolution --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- System Architecture --- p.34 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Event Evolution --- p.37 / Chapter 5.1. --- Event Evolution --- p.37 / Chapter 5.2. --- Event Timestamp and Temporal Relationship --- p.39 / Chapter 5.3. --- Event Evolution Graph --- p.42 / Chapter 5.4. --- Event Threading and Event Joining --- p.46 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Extracting News Events --- p.48 / Chapter 6.1. --- Clustering Approach --- p.48 / Chapter 6.2. --- Utilizing Clustered Stories from News Infomediaries --- p.59 / Chapter Chapter 7. --- Modeling Event Evolution Relationships --- p.62 / Chapter 7.1. --- Measuring the Confidences of Event Evolution Relationships --- p.63 / Chapter Chapter 8. --- Constructing Event Evolution Graphs --- p.68 / Chapter 8.1. --- Static Thresholding --- p.68 / Chapter 8.2. --- Static Pruning --- p.69 / Chapter 8.3. --- Dynamic Pruning --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 9. --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.72 / Chapter 9.1. --- Evaluation Measure --- p.72 / Chapter 9.2. --- Data Set --- p.77 / Chapter 9.3. --- Experimental Results and Analysis --- p.78 / Chapter Chapter 10. --- Case Study --- p.89 / Chapter Chapter 11. --- Story Segmentation and Its Effects --- p.93 / Chapter 11.1. --- Story Segmentation --- p.95 / Chapter 11.2. --- Event Generalization --- p.97 / Chapter 11.3. --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.98 / Chapter Chapter 12. --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.112 / Chapter 12.1. --- Conclusions --- p.112 / Chapter 12.2. --- Future Work --- p.113 / References --- p.114

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325971
Date January 2007
ContributorsShi, Xiaodong., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management.
Source SetsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
LanguageEnglish, Chinese
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, bibliography
Formatprint, vii, 117 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
RightsUse of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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