NEI: A Framework for Dynamic News Event Exploration and Visualization

Nowadays, there are many events reported by News Media everyday, which contains a massive number of news. People are getting more and more interested in understanding how an event evolves after it happens. News related to the same event or similar events usually has more common entities and stronger topic correlations, which is a new perspective to study news event. Due to the complexity of event evolving process, event visualization has been a big challenge for a long time. In this paper, we design a novel four-phase framework NEI(News Event Insight) that focuses on visualizing a news event properly and clearly, namely (1)Entity Topic Modeling. We extract topics and entities through timeline. (2)Temporal Topic Correlation Analysis. Based on the topic modeling result, we design two methods to select hot topics and build links for them. (3)Keyword Extraction. Specially, we combine string frequency with syntax features and use language models to acquire candidate keywords for representing topics. (4)Visualization. Visualization demonstrates the quantifying properties of topics related to a certain event. A case study shows our framework achieves promising results on both single event and similar events.