Co-organizer of the 2nd Workshop on Computing News Storylines

Vossen is co-organizing the 2nd Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory-2016), co-located with EMNLP 2016, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. November 5, 2016.

Today’s digital media ecosystem generates massive streams of news, largely in the form of individual documents (‘articles’) within which news events and narrative structures are communicated using natural language text. The increasing quantity of text documents produced by the ecosystem has presented challenges to those seeking to understand and contextualize news events and narratives over long periods of time, leading to demands for new multidimensional, multimodal and distributed representations of news events and of the narrative structures that are constructed from them. Currently, most work on cross-document temporal processing focuses on linear timelines (i.e. representations of chronologically ordered events), however not every timeline necessarily forms a good and useful storyline.

Following the success of the 1st Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory, ACL 2015), the 2nd edition of the Workshop on Computing News Storylines (CNewsStory, EMNLP 2016) aims at further exploring, investigating and understanding the connections between events and stories in the news.