Creation, Visualization and Edition of Timelines for Journalistic Use

Xavier Tannier (1) , Frédéric Vernier (2)

1 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
2 AMI - Architectures et Modèles pour l'Interaction

We describe in this article a system for building and visualizing thematic timelines automatically. The input of the system is a set of keywords, together with temporal user-specified boundaries. The output is a timeline graph showing at the same time the chronology and the importance of the events concerning the query. This requires natural language processing and information retrieval techniques, allied to a very specific temporal smoothing and visualization approach. The result can be edited so that the journalist always has the final say on what is finally displayed to the reader.

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Xavier Tannier, Frédéric Vernier. Creation, Visualization and Edition of Timelines for Journalistic Use. "Natural Language meets Journalism", workshop of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2016), Jul 2016, New York, United States. ⟨hal-02407152⟩