Multilingual Clustering of Streaming News

Sebastiao Miranda; Arturs Znotins; Shay Cohen; Guntis Barzdins

Multilingual Clustering of Streaming News

Sebastiao Miranda, Arturs Znotins, Shay Cohen, Guntis Barzdins

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Abstract

Clustering news across languages enables efficient media monitoring by aggregating articles from multilingual sources into coherent stories. Doing so in an online setting allows scalable processing of massive news streams. To this end, we describe a novel method for clustering an incoming stream of multilingual documents into monolingual and crosslingual story clusters. Unlike typical clustering approaches that consider a small and known number of labels, we tackle the problem of discovering an ever growing number of cluster labels in an online fashion, using real news datasets in multiple languages. Our method is simple to implement, computationally efficient and produces state-of-the-art results on datasets in German, English and Spanish.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Place of Publication	Brussels, Belgium
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	4535-4544
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - Nov 2018
Event	2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Square Meeting Center, Brussels, Belgium Duration: 31 Oct 2018 → 4 Nov 2018 http://emnlp2018.org/

Conference

Conference	2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Abbreviated title	EMNLP 2018
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Brussels
Period	31/10/18 → 4/11/18
Internet address	http://emnlp2018.org/

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SUMMA - Scalable Understanding of Mulitingual Media
Renals, S. (Principal Investigator), Birch-Mayne, A. (Co-investigator) & Cohen, S. (Co-investigator)
EU government bodies
1/02/16 → 31/01/19
Project: Research

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Miranda, S, Znotins, A, Cohen, S & Barzdins, G 2018, Multilingual Clustering of Streaming News. in 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 4535-4544, 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, 31/10/18. <http://aclweb.org/anthology/D18-1483 >

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Multilingual Clustering of Streaming News

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SUMMA - Scalable Understanding of Mulitingual Media

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