Part of the School of Computer Science’s Information Management Group.
HuCEL investigates methods to extract keywords from the main content of a news Web pages to automatically generate search queries that scan the Web for related events, and display this additional information to users next to the original story. A technical evaluation of the methods indicates that users found queries to be related to the story, demonstrating that the algorithm produced quality keywords. A qualitative and quantitative user study of the links generated by the HuCEL platform also demonstrates that users found these associations to be related to the story under discussion.