Anchoring News Events in Time
Earl J. Wagner, Praveen K. Paritosh, Lawrence A. Birnbaum · 2004
We present Newspique, a system for reading news online that retrieves articles to automatically generate a timeline for a topic and identifies subtopics for further exploration. To support the exploration of the context of an article, it converts each dated event description in an article into a hyperlink linking to an article about the event. The functionality of Newspique comes from an algorithm for ranking articles published on a day based on the number of references to the events of that day. We call this algorithm DateRank, in analogy to Google’s PageRank.