Improving news ranking by community tweets

  • Authors:
  • Xin Shuai;Xiaozhong Liu;Johan Bollen

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA;School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA;School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Users frequently express their information needs by means of short and general queries that are difficult for ranking algorithms to interpret correctly. However, users' social contexts can offer important additional information about their information needs which can be leveraged by ranking algorithms to provide augmented, personalized results. Existing methods mostly rely on users' individual behavioral data such as clickstream and log data, but as a result suffer from data sparsity and privacy issues. Here, we propose a Community Tweets Voting Model (CTVM) to re-rank Google and Yahoo news search results on the basis of open, large-scale Twitter community data. Experimental results show that CTVM outperforms baseline rankings from Google and Yahoo for certain online communities. We propose an application scenario of CTVM and provide an agenda for further research.