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Event Extraction from Media Texts

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The chapter describes the topic of using news content to automatically detect world events mentioned in the news. Various tasks required for identifying events are presented, such as semantic annotation, article clustering and cross-lingual cluster matching. Given the identified events we also describe how date, location, relevant entities and other core event details can be determined automatically.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Gregor Leban & Blaž Fortuna

  2. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Jožef Stefan Insitute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Marko Grobelnik

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  1. Gregor Leban
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  2. Blaž Fortuna
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Correspondence to Gregor Leban .

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  1. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Claude Sammut

  2. Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Geoffrey I. Webb

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Leban, G., Fortuna, B., Grobelnik, M. (2017). Event Extraction from Media Texts. In: Sammut, C., Webb, G.I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7687-1_901

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