NIST hosted the TDT 1999, TDT 2000, TDT 2001 , TDT 2003, and TDT 2004 Workshops. These sites contain most of the presentations and research papers prepared for each  workshop

The 1999 DARPA Broadcast News Workshop had several TDT sessions which were devoted to the 1998 TDT Evaluation.

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TDT Project Overview Papers

• Multilingual Topic Detection and Tracking: Successful Research Enabled by Corpora and Evaluation, Wayne, C., Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2000, pages 1487-1494.

TDT Corpora Related Research and Publications

• "Multiple Annotation of Reuseable Data Resources: Corpora for Topic Detection and Tracking", Cieri, Christopher, In Rajman, M. and J. C. Chappelier, eds. (2000) Actes des 5es Journees internationales d'analyse statistique des donnees textuelles, volume 1, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
• "The TDT-3 Text and Speech Corpus", Cieri, Christopher, David Graff, Nii Martey, Stephanie Strassel, Topic Detection and Tracking Workshop, Vienna, Virginia, February 28 - March 1, 2000.
• "Large Multilingual Broadcast News Corpora for Cooperative Research in Topic Detection and Tracking: The TDT2 and TDT3 Corpus Efforts", Cieri, Christopher, Dave Graff, Mark Liberman, Nii Martey and Stephanie Strassel, Proceedings of the Second International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Athens, Greece, May 2000.
• "Many uses, many annotations for large speech corpora: Switchboard and TDT as case studies", David Graff and Steven Bird (2000) 2nd Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2000) Athens, Greece, May 2000
• "Quality Control in Large Annotation Projects Involving Multiple Judges: The Case of the TDT Corpora", Strassel, Stephanie, Dave Graff, Nii Martey and Christopher Cieri . In Proceedings of the Second International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Athens, Greece, May 2000.
• "The TDT-2 Text and Speech Corpus", Christopher Cieri, David Graff, Mark Liberman, Nii Martey, Stephanie Strassel, DARPA Broadcast News Workshop, Washington, DC., February 1999.
• "Corpus Creation and Quality Control at the LDC", Stephanie Strassel, Presented at the Corpus of Spoken Dutch Workshop; Tilburg, Netherlands; November 12, 1999.
• "Topic Detection and Tracking Corpora", Christopher Cieri and David Graff, TREC/SDR Conference, Gaithesburg Maryland, November 1998.

TDT Segmentation related research

• "Statistical Models for Topic Segmentation" S. Dharanipragada, M. Franz, J.S. McCarley, K. Papineni, S.Roukos, T.Ward, W.-J. Zhu, ICSLP-2000.
• "Prosody-Based Automatic Segmentation of Speech into Sentences and Topics", E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, D. Hakkani-Tur, & G. Tur, to appear in Speech Communication 32(1-2), 2000.
• "Integrating Prosodic and Lexical Cues for Automatic Topic Segmentation", G. Tur, D. Hakkani-Tur, A. Stolcke, & E. Shriberg, to appear in Computational Linguistics.
• "Machine learning of event segmentation for news on demand", S. Boykin and A. Merlino, ", Communications of the ACM 43(2), February 2000, pp. 35-41.
• "Statistical Models for Text Segmentation", J. Lafferty, D. Beeferman and A. Berger. In Machine Learning, special issue on Natural Language Learning, C. Cardie and R. Mooney eds., 34(1-3), pp. 177-210, 1999.
• "Story Segmentation and Topic Detection for Recognized Speech", S. Dharanipragada, M. Franz, J.S. McCarley, S. Roukos, T. Ward, Eurospeech 1998.

TDT Tracking and Detection related research

• "Topic Detection, a New Application for Lexical Chaining?", P. Hatch, N. Stokes and J. Carthy, in the Proceedings of BCS- IRSG 2000, the 22nd Annual Colloquim on Information Retrieval Research, Cambridge, pages 94-103.
• "The Design of a Topic Tracking System", J. Carthy and A. F. Smeaton, proceedings of BCS-IRSG 2000, the 22nd Annual Colloquim on Information Retrieval Research, Cambridge, pages 84- 93.
• "Combining multiple learning strategies for effective cross validation" Yiming Yang, Thomas Ault, Thomas Pierce. The Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2000 (in press).
• "Statistical Models for Topic Segmentation" S. Dharanipragada, M. Franz, J.S. McCarley, K. Papineni, S.Roukos, T.Ward, W.-J. Zhu, SIGIR 2000.
• "Topic Detection and Tracking: Event Clustering as a Basis for First Story Detection", Papka, R. and Allan, J. to appear in Advances in Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
• "Topic Detection in Broadcast News", Walls, F., Jin, H., Sista, S., and Schwartz, S., Proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop, Feb 28-Mar 3, 1999, Herndon, VA.
• "Topic Tracking for Radio, TV Broadcast, and Newswire", Jin, H., Schwartz, S., Sista, S., and Walls, F., Proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop, Feb 28-Mar 3, 1999, Herndon, VA.
• "Probabilistic Models for Topic Detection and Tracking", Walls, F., Jin, H., Sista, S., and Schwartz, S., ICASSP 1999.
• "Topic Tracking for Radio, TV Broadcast, and Newswire", Jin, H., Schwartz, S., Sista, S., and Walls, F., Eurospeech 1999.
• "Topic Detection in Broadcast News", Walls, F., Jin, H., Sista, S., and Schwartz, S., Eurospeech 1999.
• "Extracting Significant Time Varying Features from Text," Swan, R. and Allan, J., in the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM99), pp. 38-45.
• "Building Hierarchical Classifiers Using Class Proximity", Ke Wang, Senqiang Zhou, Shiang Chen Liew, VLDB 1999: 363-374 http://www.vldb.org/dblp/db/conf/vldb/WangZL99.html
• "The Beta-Binomial Mixture Model for Word Frequencies in Documents with Applications to Information Retrieval" Lowe, S., Eurospeech 99
• "Topic Tracking in a News Stream", Yamron, J. Carp I., Gillick, L., Lowe, S. and van Mulbregt, P., 1999 Broadcast News Workshop
• "Learning Approaches for Detecting and Tracking News Events", Yiming Yang, Jaime Carbonell, Ralf Brown, Thomas Pierce, Brian T. Archibald, Xin Liu. IEEE Intelligent Systems: Special Issue on Applications of Intelligent Information Retrieval,Vol. 14(4), pp32-43,July/August 1999. (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~yiming/publications.html)
• "TopCat: Data Mining for Topic Identification in a Text Corpus", C. Clifton and R. Cooley , 3rd European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Prague, Czech Republic, September 15-18, 1999. Available in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1704, Springer-Verlag.

TDT First Story Detection related research

• "On-line New Event Detection and Tracking," J. Allan, R. Papka, and V. Lavrenko in Proceedings of SIGIR98, pp. 37-45.

Other Related Work

• "Statistical Models for Topic Segmentation" S. Dharanipragada, M. Franz, J.S. McCarley, K. Papineni, S.Roukos, T.Ward, W.-J. Zhu, SIGIR 2000.
• "Event Tracking based on Domain Dependency" Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki, SIGIR 2000, pp. 57-64.
• "Improving text categorization methods for event tracking" Yiming Yang, Tom Ault, Thomas Pierce, and Charles W. Lattimer, SIGIR 2000, pp. 65-72.
• "Influence of Speech Recognition Errors on Topic Detection" J. Scott McCarley and Martin Franz, SIGIR 2000, pp. 342-347.
• "Automatic Generation of Overview Timelines" Russell Swan and James Allan, SIGIR 2000, pp. 49-56.
• "Word Document Density and Relevance Scoring" Martin Franz and J. Scott McCarley, SIGIR 2000, pp. 345-347.
• Chris Clifton Robert Cooley, ``TopCat: Data Mining for Topic Identification in a Text Corpus'', 3^rd European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Prague, Czech Republic, September 15-18, 1999.
• "Ad hoc, Cross-language, and Spoken Document Information Retrieval at IBM" Martin Franz, J.Scott McCarley, R. Todd Ward, (Text Retrieval Conference TREC-8), 1999.
• "The DET Curve in Assessment of Detection Task Performance", Martin, A., Doddington, G., Kamm, T., Ordowski, M. and Przybocki, M. (1997). In Proceedings of Eurospeech 1998.