Incident threading for news passages

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1307-1316

  Feng, Ao ^a   Allan, James ^b  

^a AMAZON   (United States)

^b Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic news organization; Incident threading; Information overload; Passage threading

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TECHNIQUE; EVALUATION MEASURES; EVALUATION METHOD; HARMONIC MEAN; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; READING COMPREHENSION; REAL-WORLD; STAGE ALGORITHM;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 74549183512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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