Gordon, A., Cao, Q., Swanson, R.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture
(Whistler, BC, October 28-31, 2007)
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Among the most interesting ways that people share knowledge is through the telling of stories, i.e. first-person narratives about real life experiences. Millions of these stories appear in Internet weblogs, offering a potentially valuable resource for future knowledge management and training applications. In this paper we describe efforts to automatically capture stories from Internet weblogs by extracting them using statistical text classification techniques. We evaluate the precision and recall performance of competing approaches. We describe the large-scale application of story extraction technology to Internet weblogs, producing a corpus of stories with over a billion words.
