Modeling multiple-event situations across news articles

Readers interested in the context of an event covered in the news such as the dismissal of a lawsuit can benefit from easily finding out about the overall news situation, the legal trial, of which the event is a part. Guided by abstract models of news situation types such as legal trials, corporate acquisitions, and kidnappings, Brussell is a system that presents situation instances it creates by reading multiple articles about the specific events that comprise them. We discuss how these situation models are structured and how they drive the creation of particular instances. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.4 Knowledge Representation Formalisms and Methods – frames and scripts. General Terms Algorithms, Design.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: KCAP
• Authors: Earl J. Wagner, Larry Birnbaum, Kenneth D. Forbus
• Keywords: Information Retrieval, KCAP 2009, Knowledge Representation Formalisms And Methods, Legal Trials, Situation Instances