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.

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doi.org/10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.128, hdl.handle.net/1765/40600
2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2012
Erasmus School of Economics

Verheij, R. A., Kleijn, A., Frasincar, F., & Hogenboom, F. (2012). A comparison study for novelty control mechanisms applied to web news stories. Presented at the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, WI 2012. doi:10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.128