This paper explores two linguistically motivated restrictions on the set of words used for topic tracking on newspaper articles: named entities and headline words. We assume that named entities is one of the linguistic features for topic tracking, since both topic and event are related to a specific place and time in a story. The basic idea to use headline words for the tracking task is that he...

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Headline generation is a task of abstractive text summarization, and previously suffers from the immaturity of natural language generation techniques. Recent success of neural sentence summarization models shows the capacity of generating informative, fluent headlines conditioned on selected recapitulative sentences. In this paper, we investigate the extension of sentence summarization models t...

What is the effect on memory when seemingly innocuous photos accompany false reports of the news? We asked people to read news headlines of world events, some of which were false. Half the headlines appeared with photographs that were tangentially related to the event; others were presented without photographs. People saw each headline only once, and indicated whether they remembered the event,...

IT is somewhat unusual to come across such a heading as the above in the. daily Press. The Manchester Guardian, in a recent issue, says, under such a headline, that medical men and the public alike are now generally satisfied that the panel system serves its purpose well ; neither party would wish the system away. It is not pretended that the system has not its imperfections?it is, indeed, expr...

The appeal of personae in news is investigated based on social comparison and regulatory focus theory. High-school students (N=252) browsed through online news while selective exposure was unobtrusively logged. Manipulated headlines focused on individuals and varied along three within factors: the positive or negative valence of the headline, the sex of the portrayed individuals, and their econ...