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Ranking Web news via homepage visual layout and cross-site voting

  • Jinyi Yao
  • , Jue Wang
  • , Zhiwei Li
  • , Mingjing Li
  • , Wei-Ying Ma

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

Reading news is one of the most popular activities when people surf the internet. As too many news sources provide independent news information und each has its own preference, detecting unbiased important news might be very useful for users to keep up to date with what are happening in the world. In this paper we present a novel method to identify important news in web environment which consists of diversified online news sites. We observe that a piece of important news generally occupies visually significant place in some homepage of a news site and import news event will be reported by many news sites. To explore these two properties, we model the relationship between homepages, news and latent events by a tripartite graph, and present an algorithm to identify important news in this model. Based on this algorithm, we implement a system TOPSTORY to dynamically generate homepages for users to browse important news reports. Our experimental study indicates the effectiveness of proposed approach. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages131-142
Volume3936 LNCS
ISBN (Print)3540333479, 9783540333470
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event28th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2006 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 10 Apr 200612 Apr 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3936 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference28th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2006
PlaceUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period10/04/0612/04/06

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