CHANGE OF TOPICS OVER TIME - Tracking Topics by their Change of Meaning

Gerhard Heyer, Florian Holz, Sven Teresniak

2009

Abstract

In this paper we present a new approach to the analysis of topics and their dynamics over time. Given a large amount of news text on a daily basis, we have identified “hotly discussed” concepts by examining the contextual shift between the time slices. We adopt the volatility measure from econometrics and propose a new algorithm for frequency-independent detection of topic drift.

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in Harvard Style

Heyer G., Holz F. and Teresniak S. (2009). CHANGE OF TOPICS OVER TIME - Tracking Topics by their Change of Meaning . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-011-5, pages 223-228. DOI: 10.5220/0002330602230228


in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir09,
author={Gerhard Heyer and Florian Holz and Sven Teresniak},
title={CHANGE OF TOPICS OVER TIME - Tracking Topics by their Change of Meaning},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={223-228},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002330602230228},
isbn={978-989-674-011-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009)
TI - CHANGE OF TOPICS OVER TIME - Tracking Topics by their Change of Meaning
SN - 978-989-674-011-5
AU - Heyer G.
AU - Holz F.
AU - Teresniak S.
PY - 2009
SP - 223
EP - 228
DO - 10.5220/0002330602230228