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Automated story capture from internet weblogs

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Among the most interesting ways that people share knowledge is through the telling of stories, i.e. first-person narratives about real-life experiences. Millions of these stories appear in Internet weblogs, offering a potentially valuable resource for future knowledge management and training applications. In this paper we describe efforts to automatically capture stories from Internet weblogs by extracting them using statistical text classification techniques. We evaluate the precision and recall performance of competing approaches. We describe the large-scale application of story extraction technology to Internet weblogs, producing a corpus of stories with over a billion words.

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    K-CAP '07: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge capture
    October 2007
    216 pages
    ISBN:9781595936431
    DOI:10.1145/1298406
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    Published: 28 October 2007

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    1. knowledge management
    2. storytelling
    3. weblogs

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    October 28 - 31, 2007
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