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Exploring open information via event network†

  • YANPING CHEN (a1) (a2), QINGHUA ZHENG (a2), FENG TIAN (a3), HUAN LIU (a2), YAZHOU HAO (a2) and NAZARAF SHAH (a4)...
Abstract

It is a challenging task to discover information from a large amount of data in an open domain. 1 In this paper, an event network framework is proposed to address this challenge. It is in fact an empirical construct for exploring open information, composed of three steps: document event detection, event network construction and event network analysis. First, documents are clustered into document events for reducing the impact of noisy and heterogeneous resources. Secondly, linguistic units (e.g., named entities or entity relations) are extracted from each document event and combined into an event network, which enables content-oriented retrieval. Then, in the final step, techniques such as social network or complex network can be applied to analyze the event network for exploring open information. In the implementation section, we provide examples of exploring open information via event network.

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This research is supported in part by the National Science Foundation of China under grant numbers 201721002, 61462011, 61540050 and 61472315; The Fundamental Theory and Applications of Big Data with Knowledge Engineering under the National Key Research and Development Program of China with grant number 2016YFB1000903, Project of China Knowledge Centre for Engineering Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Education Innovation Research Team no. IRT13035. The Open project no. 2017BDKFJJ018; the Major Applied Basic Research Program of Guizhou Province no. JZ20142001. Introduce Talents Science Projects of Guizhou University no. 201650.

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