Timeline summarization for event-related discussions on a chinese social media platform

Han Wang, Jia Ling Koh*

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Abstract

In this paper, we proposed an approach to automatically generate timeline summarization for sub-event discussions related to a query event without supervised learning. In order to select event-related sentences, we designed a two-stage method to extract representative entity terms in the event-related discussions and filter out most of the sentences semantically un-related to the query event. A rule-based method was applied to extract sentences which describing sub-events. After that, the discussions are assigned to the corresponding sub-events according to the semantic relatedness measure. Finally, according to the occurring time of each sub-event, the timeline summarization is organized. We evaluated the performance of the proposed method on the real-world datasets. The experiment results showed that each processing step perform effectively. Especially, most noise sentences could be filtered by the proposed method. Moreover, the final timeline summarization graded by users is proven to be useful to well understand the discussion trend of a sub-event.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Theory to Practice - 30th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2017, Proceedings
EditorsMoonis Ali, Salem Benferhat, Karim Tabia
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages579-594
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783319600413
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2017 - Arras, France
Duration: 2017 Jun 272017 Jun 30

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10350 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other30th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering, and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2017
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityArras
Period2017/06/272017/06/30

Keywords

  • Sub-event detection
  • Text data mining
  • Timeline summarization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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