Novelty detection in text streams is a challenging task that emerges in quite a few different scenarii, ranging from email threads to RSS news feeds on a cell phone. An efficient novelty detection algorithm can save the user a great deal of time when accessing interesting information. Most of the recent research for the detection of novel documents in text streams uses either geometric distances or distributional similarities with the former typically performing better but being slower as we need to compare an incoming document with all the previously seen ones. In this paper, we propose a new novelty detection algorithm based on the Inverse Document Frequency (IDF) scoring function. Computing novelty based on IDF enables us to avoid similarity comparisons with previous documents in the text stream, thus leading to faster execution times. At the same time, our proposed approach outperforms several commonly used baselines when applied on a real-world news articles dataset. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.
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Karkali, M., Rousseau, F., Ntoulas, A., & Vazirgiannis, M. (2013). Efficient online novelty detection in news streams. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8180 LNCS, pp. 57–71). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41230-1_5
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