2022
Authors
Campos, R; Jorge, AM; Jatowt, A; Bhatia, S; Litvak, M; Cordeiro, JP; Rocha, C; Sousa, H; Mansouri, B;
Publication
SIGIR Forum
Abstract
2023
Authors
Campos, R; Jatowt, A; Jorge, A;
Publication
Information for a Better World: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity - 18th International Conference, iConference 2023, Virtual Event, March 13-17, 2023, Proceedings, Part I
Abstract
Extracting keywords from textual data is a crucial step for text analysis. One such process may involve a considerable amount of time when done manually. In this paper, we show how keyword extraction techniques can be used to untap texts of political nature. To accomplish this objective, we conduct a case-study on top of 16 Portuguese (PT) political party programs made available in the context of the legislative elections that took place in 30th of January 2022. Our contributions are two-fold. At the level of resources, we make available a curated dataset and a python notebook that systematizes the process of transforming text into quantitative data and into visual aspects. At the methodological level, we propose to extend the keyword extraction algorithm used in this study to extract the most relevant keywords, not only from individual political party programs, but also across the entire collection of documents. A further contribution is the case-study itself, which calls attention to the fact that such solutions may be of interest not only to common people, but also to journalists or politicians alike. Broadly, we demonstrate how the discussion and the analysis that stems from the results obtained may foster the political science research by making available large-scale processing of documents with marginal costs. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
2023
Authors
Campos, R; Jorge, A; Jatowt, A; Bhatia, S; Litvak, M;
Publication
ADVANCES IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, ECIR 2023, PT III
Abstract
Over these past five years, significant breakthroughs, led by Transformers and large language models, have been made in understanding natural language text. However, the ability to capture contextual nuances in longer texts is still an elusive goal, let alone the understanding of consistent fine-grained narrative structures in text. These unsolved challenges and the interest in the community are at the basis of the sixth edition of Text2Story workshop to be held in Dublin on April 2nd, 2023 in conjunction with the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23). In its sixth edition, we aim to bring to the forefront the challenges involved in understanding the structure of narratives and in incorporating their representation in well-established models, as well as in modern architectures (e.g., transformers) which are now common and form the backbone of almost every IR and NLP application. It is hoped that the workshop will provide a common forum to consolidate the multi-disciplinary efforts and foster discussions to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction and generation task. Text2Story includes sessions devoted to full research papers, work-in-progress, demos and dissemination papers, keynote talks and space for an informal discussion of the methods, of the challenges and of the future of this research area.
2023
Authors
Castro, M; Jorge, A; Campos, R;
Publication
ADVANCES IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, ECIR 2023, PT III
Abstract
The rise of social media has brought a great transformation to the way news are discovered and shared. Unlike traditional news sources, social media allows anyone to cover a story. Therefore, sometimes an event is already discussed by people before a journalist turns it into a news article. Twitter is a particularly appealing social network for discussing events, since its posts are very compact and, therefore, contain colloquial language and abbreviations. However, its large volume of tweets also makes it impossible for a user to keep up with an event. In this work, we present TweetStream2Story, a web app for extracting narratives from tweets posted in real time, about a topic of choice. This framework can be used to provide new information to journalists or be of interest to any user who wishes to stay up-to-date on a certain topic or ongoing event. As a contribution to the research community, we provide a live version of the demo, as well as its source code.
2023
Authors
Litvak, M; Rabaev, I; Campos, R; Jorge, AM; Jatowt, A;
Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 46TH INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, SIGIR 2023
Abstract
The first edition of the Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT'23) aims at bringing to the forefront the challenges involved in identifying and extracting from texts implicit information about authors (e.g., human or AI) and using it in IR tasks. The IACT workshop provides a common forum to consolidate multi-disciplinary efforts and foster discussions to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the task of extracting implicit author-related information from the textual content, including novel tasks and datasets. We will also discuss the ethical implications of implicit information extraction. In addition, we announce a shared task focused on automatically determining the literary epochs of written books.
2007
Authors
Campos, R;
Publication
Proceedings of the 2007 Euro American conference on Telematics and Information Systems, EATIS 2007, Faro, Portugal, May 14-17, 2007
Abstract
The first's library projects occur some years ago with digitization, but just in 1996, the first's web archive initiatives start occurring. Such, was based in the Internet growth and in its increasing use, items that revealed to be an opportunity to transform and readapt the traditional library services. In this context, search engines play a fundamental role of support to the new paradigm of knowledge, by capturing, storing and providing access to the resources, allowing the existence of a digital library in each computer with internet access. In this article we analyze the ways of developing a digital library, taking higher attention to the web harvesting technique, and presenting digital libraries capabilities and limitations. Then we fully summarize relevant projects and initiatives, to finally study the role of search engines in what concerns to, digital preservation, access and information diffusion.
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