| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/C520939/1 |
| Title: |
Models of New Event Detection for Personalised News Content Programming |
| Principal Investigator: |
Crestani, Professor F |
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Computer and Information Sciences |
| Organisation: |
University of Strathclyde |
| Scheme: |
Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC |
| Starts: |
17 January 2005 |
Ends: |
16 May 2005 |
Value (£): |
13,018
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| Computer Graphics & Visual. |
Information & Knowledge Mgmt |
| Multimedia |
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New Event Detection (NED) is the task of detecting stories about previously unseen events in a stream of news stories. A possible application for this task is to alert a news analyst when a new event occurs, e.g., an aeroplane crash, an earthquake, governmental elections, etc.Personalised and content-based NED is essential for personalised news content programming directed to the news professional. It gives a system the ability of flag and present in real time news reporting new events that are relevant to a user interest or task.Researchers at PARC have been at the forefront on work on NED and have developed advanced models and systems of news topic distillation and new event detection. In addition, other researchers at PARC have studied extensively technologies that are directly related to NED, like topic tracking, automatic genre detection, document visualisation and summarisation. So, the primary goal of the requested overseas travel grant is to establish a collaboration with researchers at PARC aimed at designing new NED models that satisfy the needs of EC project PENG. These models will be tested in the context of PENG will real users, real needs and real-time news. This has never been done before, since all research related to NED has been carried out in the laboratory-like conditions of the Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) initiative, which does not involve real users and real tasks.
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