Using names and topics for new event detection

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 121-128

  Kumaran, Giridhar ^a   Allan, James ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; VECTOR SPACES;

BASELINE VECTORS; BINARY CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS; CLASSIFIER MODELS; COMPARISON SCORES; COSINE SIMILARITY; EVENT DETECTION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053262469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220575.1220591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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