1. The Horizons of News Search SSM Workshop 2010 By Richard McCreadie, Craig Macdonald, IadhOunis 1
2. How is News reported? 2 Newswire companies publish the article Reporters arrive and write an article News is commentated on and discussed . . . Newswire Company Reporter Internet The public witnesses event Event! . . . Both publicly . . . Observer . . . Observers now report events online Instant Messaging Logs And implicitly . . .
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5. How can User-Generated Content Help? Freshness Volume Classifying User Queries Ranking Results 5
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9. This creates exciting possibilities in leveraging the rich information they produce to improve news search
10. CR: TREC Blog track, Top News Stories Identification8
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News search – integrates news articles into rankingAggregators – listing of articles about the query
Real time speed, accuracy, coverage, wide def newsFreshness, coverage of viewpoints avoid bias, sample public opinion
Reporting speed, cite first sourceComentary detect queries, include in results, users like to see peer views, wide range of storiesNone of these will be easy however!
Challenges to overcomeConfidence trustworthyQuality ad value, good posts, sources?Coverage