Experiments in First Story Detection
Indro De, April Kontostathis · 2005
The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has developed data sets of news stories from various sources for the Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) initiative, an ongoing project for the advancement of text search technologies. A First Story Detection (FSD) application was applied to several data sets from this collection. This task requires identifying those stories within a large set of data that discuss an event that has not already been reported in earlier