A Comparison Study for Novelty Control Mechanisms Applied to Web News Stories

Author

Verheij, A. ; Kleijn, A. ; Frasincar, Flavius ; Hogenboom, Frederik

Author_Institution

Econometric Inst., Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

431

Lastpage

436

Abstract

In this paper we evaluate several novelty control mechanisms for ranking Web news articles depicting a story. These mechanisms rank individual news items based on a novelty measure using as context the items which have been previously reviewed. An evaluation within the Hermes news personalization framework is performed for pair wise and non-pair wise novelty control mechanisms based on various distance measures and vector-based news representations. On average, the most effective distance measure is Kullback-Leibler and the best performing news representation vector uses named entities.

Keywords

Internet; electronic publishing; information retrieval; vectors; Hermes news personalization framework; Kullback-Leibler distance measure; Web news article ranking; Web news stories; distance measures; named entities; nonpairwise novelty control mechanism; pairwise novelty control mechanisms; vector-based news representations; Novelty control; Web news; ranking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6057-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.128

Filename

6511919