HRSTORY: Historical News Review Based Online Story Discovery

Story discovery on news streams can help people quickly find story from vast amounts of news, improving the efficiency of information acquisition. Recent online story discovery methods encode text topics and then cluster articles into stories based on similarity. However, the results obtained by these methods are one-time, and clustered news cannot adaptively update in a continuous news stream. Additionally, the inadequate quality of article encoding and the presence of noise data deteriorate the performance of story discovery. To this end, we propose HRSTORY for online story discovery on news streams, which employs a historical news review method to enable news to continuously adapt to the latest environment in the stream data and make corrections and updates. Furthermore, HRSTORY captures better article embeddings through modeling multi-layer relational dependencies within the text. By using sentence-level noise masking, HRSTORY improves the relevance of news article representation to core topics and reduces the interference of noise data. Experiments on real news datasets show that HRSTORY outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms in unsupervised online story discovery performance.