The Function First Story

First Person Narrative Story Extraction and Retrieval

The ability to acquire, communicate and transfer complex knowledge is one of the fundamental characteristics that make us human. It should be no surprise that knowledge representation and management is seen as a fundamental problem in Artificial Intelligence research. There is certainly no requirement that a machine encode this knowledge the same way humans do. However, any decisions in represe...

First Story Detection using Entities and Relations

News portals, such as Yahoo News or Google News, collect large amounts of documents from a variety of sources on a daily basis. Only a small portion of these documents can be selected and displayed on the homepage. Thus, there is a strong preference for major, recent events. In this work, we propose a scalable and accurate First Story Detection (FSD) pipeline that identifies fresh news. In comp...

COOL Story: Country of Origin Labeling and the First Amendment.

The story of Osler's first four Arabic manuscript acquisitions.

The Untold Story of America's First Sentencing Commission