- Ralf D. Brown. 2001. A Server for Real-Time Event Tracking in News. Abstract: As the flood of information continues to grow, it becomes ever more necessary to extract just the portion of the flow which is of interest to each user. The Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) project [1, 3, 6, 5] addressed and continues to address this need, but has been of necessity applied in a batch-processing context on a static collection. What is required for topic detection and tracking to be of utility to end-users is a real-time system which operates on a live stream of information. This paper describes the extension and modification of a batch-oriented tracking system into a real-time server for event detection, event tracking, document summarization, and translation.
