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What is Story cluster?

Verified 5 August 2026

Clustering by story is what makes news retrieval usable. It converts forty syndicated copies into one item with a group size, and provides the unit over which corroboration is counted.

Clusters are built from near-duplicate detection plus embedding similarity, so they catch both verbatim syndication and independent reporting of the same event.

Common questions

What is Story cluster?

A story cluster groups documents reporting the same underlying event, across publishers and wordings.

How does Story cluster work in practice?

Clusters are built from near-duplicate detection plus embedding similarity, so they catch both verbatim syndication and independent reporting of the same event.

See it working

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