Knowledge-Based News Event Analysis and Forecasting Toolkit

Knowledge-Based News Event Analysis and Forecasting Toolkit

Oktie Hassanzadeh, Parul Awasthy, Ken Barker, Onkar Bhardwaj, Debarun Bhattacharjya, Mark Feblowitz, Lee Martie, Jian Ni, Kavitha Srinivas, Lucy Yip

Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Demo Track. Pages 5904-5907. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2022/850

We present a toolkit for knowledge-based news event analysis and forecasting. The toolkit is powered by a Knowledge Graph (KG) of events curated from structured and unstructured sources of event-related knowledge. The toolkit provides functions for 1) mapping ongoing news headlines to concepts in the KG, 2) retrieval, reasoning, and visualization for causal analysis and forecasting, and 3) extraction of causal knowledge from text documents to augment the KG with additional domain knowledge. Each function has a number of implementations using a wide range of state-of-the-art neuro-symbolic techniques. We show how the toolkit enables building a human-in-the-loop explainable solution for event analysis and forecasting.
Keywords:
Natural Language Processing: Applications
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Applications
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Semantic Web
Natural Language Processing: Knowledge Extraction
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: General