This paper forms the final component of the published research from the Simweb project, the European Commission Fifth Framework project which was investigating the possibility of providing consulting advice to New Economy SMEs. Our component of Simweb investigated the two market sectors – online news and online music – on which the project was focused. In this paper we summarise the results of ...

ELIMINATING REDUNDANT AND LESS-INFORMATIVE RSS NEWS ARTICLES BASED ON WORD SIMILARITY AND A FUZZY EQUIVALENCE RELATION Ian Garcia Department of Computer Science Master of Science The Internet has marked this era as the information age. There is no precedent in the amazing amount of information, especially network news, that can be accessed by Internet users these days. As a result, the problem ...

Recommender Systems have evolved as an answer to information overload problem prevalent with online users, looking for relevant information out of a huge premise of content available online. Such systems are used to provide recommendations to the users guiding them towards items that match their interest areas and choice. News Recommendation is a specific research area under recommender systems...

While online information sources are rapidly increasing in amount, so does the daily available online news content. Several approaches have being proposed for organizing this immense amount of data. In this work we explore the integration of multiple information retrieval techniques, like text preprocessing, n-grams expansion, summarization, categorization and item/user clustering into a single...

Scholars have argued that online social networks and personalized web search increase ideological segregation. We investigate the impact of these potentially polarizing channels on news consumption by examining web browsing histories for 50,000 U.S.-located users who regularly read online news. We find that individuals indeed exhibit substantially higher segregation when reading articles shared...

We examine how changes in information and communication technologies (ICTs) become implicated in temporal shifts within organizations. Specifically, we explore how the established temporal structures associated with the production of news are changing as news organizations expand their strategies from only printing traditional newspapers to also publishing online news. We identify a number of s...

There is growing evidence to suggest that the impact of positive and negative news are asymmetricthat the impact of bad news has a much greater effect on investors’ sentiment than positive news does; investors react more harshly when bad news is disseminated. Using daily data from 30 companies listed on the DJIA index over the period April 3, 2012 to April 5, 2013, we analyse 289,443 online twe...

Online news recommender systems aim to address the information explosion of news and make personalized recommendation for users. In general, news language is highly condensed, full of knowledge entities and common sense. However, existing methods are unaware of such external knowledge and cannot fully discover latent knowledge-level connections among news. The recommended results for a user are...

The connectivity and availability of the Internet enables truly grassroots networks to disseminate news at the personal level. In such an environment where news abounds and anyone can publish and distribute, a method is needed to filter the overwhelming quantity of information to locate news items that are relevant to the individual. Currently search engines are the primary method to locate onl...

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