Automatically predicting information quality in news documents

  • Authors:
  • Rong Tang;Kwong Bor Ng;Tomek Strzalkowski;Paul B. Kantor

  • Affiliations:
  • University at Albany, Albany, NY;Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, CUNY, New York, NY;Univerity at Albany, Albany, NY;Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

  • Venue:
  • NAACL-Short '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We report here empirical results of a series of studies aimed at automatically predicting information quality in news documents. Multiple research methods and data analysis techniques enabled a good level of machine prediction of information quality. Procedures regarding user experiments and statistical analysis are described.