{"title":"Clustering Sinhala News Articles Using Corpus-Based Similarity Measures","authors":"P. Nanayakkara, Surangika Ranathunga","doi":"10.1109/MERCON.2018.8421890","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"News aggregators help readers to handle large numbers of news items in a convenient manner by collecting them into a single place with meaningful groupings. Such news aggregators/clusters are available for English and some other popular languages. However, no such tools are available for Sinhala language. To address this void, this paper presents a system to collect news articles published across the web and group related articles using corpus-based similarity measures. Despite the simplicity of the technique and morphological richness of Sinhala, we achieved very promising results that prove the viability of the presented technique.","PeriodicalId":6603,"journal":{"name":"2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)","volume":"1 1","pages":"437-442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MERCON.2018.8421890","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
News aggregators help readers to handle large numbers of news items in a convenient manner by collecting them into a single place with meaningful groupings. Such news aggregators/clusters are available for English and some other popular languages. However, no such tools are available for Sinhala language. To address this void, this paper presents a system to collect news articles published across the web and group related articles using corpus-based similarity measures. Despite the simplicity of the technique and morphological richness of Sinhala, we achieved very promising results that prove the viability of the presented technique.