A novel approach to news aggregation is proposed. Rather than ranking or summarisation of cluster topics, we propose that articles are grouped by topic similarity and then clustered within topic groups in order to identify archetypal articles that represent the various perspectives upon a topic. An example application is examined and a preliminary user study is discussed. Future applications an...

news has played a vital role in peoples’ and governments’ decision making. as such, the source and reliability of the news are of equal or even more significance than the news itself and that makes reporting the news a challenging and critical profession. accordingly, investigating how news is reported is essential and further it would be illuminating to see how different news reporting organiz...

Clickbaits are articles with misleading titles, exaggerating the content on the landing page. Their goal is to entice users to click on the title in order to monetize the landing page. The content on the landing page is usually of low quality. Their presence in user homepage stream of news aggregator sites (e.g., Yahoo news, Google news) may adversely impact user experience. Hence, it is import...

SocialNews seeks to enhance the news results returned by online news services such as Google News or Bing News by leveraging social networking information to provide more relevant results to the user. For example, Facebook profiles contain a wealth of information about the user’s interests, hobbies, personal history, and friends. We describe a system that analyzes the content in a user’s social...

WINTER 2015 87 The Internet has been strongly gaining prominence as a news medium; in 2012, it overtook the TV as the most used news source for people under 30 in the United States (Kohut 2013). In addition, it has significantly changed the way in which many people find and consume news. Multiple publishers are now reachable more easily than ever before. Social bookmarking sites present us with...

The marvel of markets lies in the fact that dispersed information is instantaneously processed by adjusting the price of goods, services and assets. Financial markets are particularly efficient when it comes to processing information; such information is typically embedded in textual news that is then interpreted by investors. Quite recently, researchers have started to automatically determine ...