Who? What? Event Tracking Needs Event Understanding

Nicholas Mamo, Joel Azzopardi, Colin Layfield

2021

Abstract

Humans first learn, then think and finally perform a task. Machines neither learn nor think, but we still expect them to perform tasks as well as humans. In this position paper, we address the lack of understanding in Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT), an area that builds timelines of events, but which hardly understands events at all. Without understanding events, TDT has progressed slowly as the community struggles to solve the challenges of modern data sources, like Twitter. We explore understanding from different perspectives: what it means for machines to understand events, why TDT needs understanding, and how algorithms can generate knowledge automatically. To generate understanding, we settle on a structured definition of events based on the four Ws: the Who, What, Where and When. Of the four Ws, we focus especially on the Who and the What, aligning them with other research areas that can help TDT generate event knowledge automatically. In time, understanding can lead to machines that not only track events better, but also model and mine them.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mamo N., Azzopardi J. and Layfield C. (2021). Who? What? Event Tracking Needs Event Understanding. In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2021) - Volume 1: KDIR; ISBN 978-989-758-533-3, SciTePress, pages 139-146. DOI: 10.5220/0010650500003064

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir21,
author={Nicholas Mamo and Joel Azzopardi and Colin Layfield},
title={Who? What? Event Tracking Needs Event Understanding},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2021) - Volume 1: KDIR},
year={2021},
pages={139-146},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010650500003064},
isbn={978-989-758-533-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2021) - Volume 1: KDIR
TI - Who? What? Event Tracking Needs Event Understanding
SN - 978-989-758-533-3
AU - Mamo N.
AU - Azzopardi J.
AU - Layfield C.
PY - 2021
SP - 139
EP - 146
DO - 10.5220/0010650500003064
PB - SciTePress