Entity relatedness for retrospective analyses of global events
Journal: MADOC (University of Mannheim)
Year: 2016

Tracking global events through time would ease many diachronic analyses which are currently carried out manually by social scientists.&#13;\nWhile entity linking algorithms can be adapted to track events that go by a common name, such a name is often not established in early stages leading up to the event. This study evaluates the utility of entity relatedness for the task of identifying related entities and textual resources that describe the involvement of the entity in the event. In a small s