A method of rating the credibility of news documents on the web

Authors:
Ryosuke Nagura;Yohei Seki;Noriko Kando;Masaki Aono
Affiliations:
Toyohashi University of Technology, Aichi, Japan;Toyohashi University of Technology, Aichi, Japan;National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan;Toyohashi University of Technology, Aichi, Japan
Venue:
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We propose a method to rate the credibility of news articles using three clues: (1) commonality of the contents of articles among different news publishers; (2) numerical agreement versus contradiction of numerical values reported in the articles; and (3) objectivity based on subjective speculative phrases and news sources. We tested this method on news stories taken from seven different news sites on the Web. The average agreement between the system-produced "credibility" and the manual judgments of three human assessors on the 52 sample articles was 69.1%. The limitations of the current approach and future directions are discussed.