Smartnews: Bringing order into comments chaos

Marina Litvak, Leon Matz

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Various news sites exist today where internet audience can read the most recent news and see what other people think about. Most sites do not organize comments well and do not filter irrelevant content. Due to this limitation, readers who are interested to know other people's opinion regarding any specific topic, have to manually follow relevant comments, reading and filtering a lot of irrelevant text. In this work, we introduce a new approach for retrieving and ranking the relevant comments for a given paragraph of news article and vice versa. We use Topic-Sensitive PageRank for ranking comments/paragraphs relevant for a user-specified paragraph/comment. The browser extension implementing our approach (called SmartNews) for Yahoo! News is publicly available.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIC3K 2013; KDIR 2013 - 5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and KMIS 2013 - 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, Proc.
PublisherSciTePress
Pages191-196
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9789898565754
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, KDIR 2013 and the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, KMIS 2013 - Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
Duration: 19 Sep 201322 Sep 2013

Publication series

NameIC3K 2013; KDIR 2013 - 5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and KMIS 2013 - 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, Proc.

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, KDIR 2013 and the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, KMIS 2013
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityVilamoura, Algarve
Period19/09/1322/09/13

Keywords

  • Comments retrieval
  • Query-based ranking
  • Topic sensitive page rank

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Software

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