Author Description

Topic Detection and Tracking: Event-based Information Organization brings together in one place state-of-the-art research in Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT). This collection of technical papers from leading researchers in the field not only provides several chapters devoted to the research program and its evaluation paradigm, but also presents the most current research results and describes some of the remaining open challenges. Topic Detection and Tracking: Event-based Information Organization is an excellent reference for researchers and practitioners in a variety of fields related to TDT, including information retrieval, automatic speech recognition, machine learning, and information extraction.