# TopExNet: Entity-Centric Network Topic Exploration in News Streams

## TL;DR

TopExNet is a web-based tool that leverages entity-centric network representations to explore and analyze relationships in news streams efficiently and interactively.

## Contribution

It introduces TopExNet, a novel tool for entity-centric network topic exploration specifically designed for news streams.

## Key findings

- Enables interactive exploration of entity relations in news streams
- Utilizes implicit network representations for unstructured text
- Provides a web service for accessible analysis

## Abstract

The recent introduction of entity-centric implicit network representations of unstructured text offers novel ways for exploring entity relations in document collections and streams efficiently and interactively. Here, we present TopExNet as a tool for exploring entity-centric network topics in streams of news articles. The application is available as a web service at https://topexnet.ifi.uni-heidelberg.de/ .