Reference: Tuan-Anh Hoang, Khoi Duy Vo, and Wolfgang Nejdl. 2018. W2E: A Worldwide-Event Benchmark Dataset for Topic Detection and Tracking. In Proceedings of the 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1847-1850.(pdf)
This file contains all events together with its (original-unmerged) topic as extracted from Wikipedia Current Events portal in 2016. Each topic has one line containing the the topic's information (4 tab-separated fields: ID, category, a '****' string, and the description), follows by Nx2 lines for its N events. Each event has 2 lines: the first line contains the event's information (2 tab-separated fields: date of the event, and the event's summary), the second line contains the search query that is manually constructed for the event.
Example: " TOPIC-7 Disasters and accidents *** Kollam temple fire 2016-04-10 A fire occurs at a Hindu temple in the Kollam district ... Kollam Kerala India Hindu temple fire 2016-04-11 Five workers from the company that supplied fireworks to the Puttingal Temple ... worker fireworks Puttingal Temple dead " means TOPIC-7 belong to "Disasters and accidents" category and the description is "Disasters and accidents". This topic has 2 events, happening on 2016-04-10 and 2016-04-11 respectively. The two queries for those events are Kollam Kerala India Hindu temple fire and worker fireworks Puttingal Temple dead respectively.
This file contains all topics merged together in to bigger topics - here called GROUP. Each group is denoted by group ID and follows by the set of its topics. Events of group's topic member are also listed.
Example: " GROUP-3 TOPIC-1386 Politics and elections South Korea's opposition holds ... 2016-02-24 South Korea's opposition holds a parliamentary filibuster, ... TOPIC-2678 Politics and elections South Korean opposition lawmakers' anti-terrorism bill ... 2016-02-28 South Korean opposition lawmakers' anti-terrorism bill filibuster... " means TOPIC-1386 and TOPIC-2678 are merged together under GROUP-3. Each of the two topics has one event that happens on 2016-02-24 and 2016-02-28 respectively.
This file contains the list of all the news agencies where we collected articles from.
This file contains all URLs to articles that are manually judged relevant to the events. For the articles' content, please write to hoang_at_l3s_dot_de