Ensemble Detection of Single & Multiple Events at Sentence-Level

Modern Newspapers have been organized into news articles. This structure was kept since their invention in the early 17th century. These articles are usually organized in an “inverted pyramid” structure, placing the most essential, novel and interesting elements of a story in the beginning and the supporting materials and secondary details afterwards. This structure was designed for a world where most readers would read one newspaper per day and one article on a particular subject. This model is less suited for today’s world of online news where readers have access to thousands of news sources. While the same high-level facts of a story may be covered by all sources in the first few paragraphs, there are often many important differences in the details “buried” further down. Readers who are interested in these details have to read through the same materials multiple times. The problem becomes even more pronounced when difference sources of information, such as Broadcast News, Blogs, and News sites, are taken into account.