Visualizing Trends of Key Roles in News Articles

Chen Xia, Haoxiang Zhang, Jacob Moghtader, Allen Wu, Kai-Wei Chang


Abstract
There are tons of news generated every day reflecting the change of key roles such as people, organizations and political parties. Analyzing the trend of these key roles can help understand the information flow in a more effective way. In this paper, we present a demonstration system that visualizes the news trend of key roles based on natural language processing techniques. Specifically, we apply semantic role labelling to understand relationships between key roles in the news. We also train a dynamic word embedding model to align representations of words in different time periods to measure how the similarities between a key role and news topics change over time. Note: The github link to our demo jupyter notebook and screencast video is https://github.com/kasinxc/Visualizing-Trend-of-Key-Roles-in-News-Articles
Anthology ID:
D19-3042
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Sebastian Padó, Ruihong Huang
Venues:
EMNLP | IJCNLP
SIG:
SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
247–252
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D19-3042
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-3042
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Chen Xia, Haoxiang Zhang, Jacob Moghtader, Allen Wu, and Kai-Wei Chang. 2019. Visualizing Trends of Key Roles in News Articles. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, pages 247–252, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Visualizing Trends of Key Roles in News Articles (Xia et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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