A System for new event detection

Thorsten Brants, Francine Chen
2003 Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval - SIGIR '03  
We present a new method and system for performing the New Event Detection task, i.e., in one or multiple streams of news stories, all stories on a previously unseen (new) event are marked. The method is based on an incremental TF-IDF model. Our extensions include: generation of source-specific models, similarity score normalization based on document-specific averages, similarity score normalization based on source-pair specific averages, term reweighting based on inverse event frequencies, and
more » ... egmentation of the documents. We also report on extensions that did not improve results. The system performs very well on TDT3 and TDT4 test data and scored second in the TDT-2002 evaluation.
doi:10.1145/860492.860495 fatcat:7rhcafgr45f7tpyc6jvclnwzye