This reporsitory implements Story Forest system for event clustering and story generation.

Please cite the following paper for usage:

@inproceedings{liu2017growing, title={Growing Story Forest Online from Massive Breaking News}, author={Liu, Bang and Niu, Di and Lai, Kunfeng and Kong, Linglong and Xu, Yu}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management}, pages={777--785}, year={2017}, organization={ACM} } 

For event clustering, see "eventlayer/EventLayer"; for story generation, see "story layer/StoryLayer". The main functions in the two files show how to run the whole process.

Notice: currently, we haven't release the dataset due to copyright issues. But we will release a sample dataset asap.