Term-Based Approach for Linking Digital News Stories

Journal of Information Science

Rahman

Ahmad

et al. 2020

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To retrieve a specific news article from a vast archive containing multilingual news articles against a user query or based on similarity among news articles is a challenging task. The task becomes even further complicated when the archive contains articles from a low resourced and morphologically complex language like Urdu, along with English new articles. The article proposes a content-based (lexical) similarity measure, that is, Common Ratio Measure for Dual Language (CRMDL), for linking digital news articles published in various online news sources. The similarity measure links Urdu-to-English news articles during the preservation process using an Urdu-to-English lexicon. A literature review showed that an Urdu-to-English lexicon did not exist, and therefore, the first task was to build a lexicon from multiple sources. The proposed similarity measure, that is, CRMDL, is evaluated rigorously on different data sets, of varying sizes, to assess the effectiveness. The experimental results show that the proposed measure is feasible and effective for similarity computation between Urdu and English news articles, which can obtain, on average, 50% precision and 67% recall. The performance can be improved sufficiently by managing the limitations summarised in the study.

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Why Crms?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A content-based technique for linking dual language news articles in an archive

Journal of Information Science

Rahman

Ahmad

et al. 2020

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“…To introduced content-based techniques for linking news articles during the preservation process in the DNSA. Text processing based on text features, such as common ratio based on terms frequency (Khan et al , 2018a, b), named entities (Khan et al , 2018a, b), term position, headline terms, information credibility, similar terms distance, etc. (Khan, 2018).…”

Section: Linking Digital News Stories In Dnsamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(Khan, 2018). To recommend, how to enhance the DNSP framework in different dimensions (few of them are discussed in future work) (Khan, 2018). We proposed a systematic approach for web preservation in the DNSP framework and initially adopted for creating DNSA (Khan and Rahman, 2019).…”

Section: Linking Digital News Stories In Dnsamentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of news title for linking during preservation process in digital archives

Ahmad³

et al. 2020

LHT

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PurposeThe World Wide Web has become an essential platform for a news publication, and it has become one of the primary sources of information dissemination in the past few years. Electronic media, i.e., television channels, magazines and newspapers, have started publishing news online. This online information is prompt to be disappeared because of short life-span and imperative to be archived for the long-term and future generations. This paper presents a content-based similarity measure based on the headings of the news articles for linking digital news stories published in various newspapers during the preservation process that helps to ensure future accessibility.Design/methodology/approachTo evaluate the accuracy and assess the effectiveness and worth of the proposed measure for linking news articles in Digital News Story Archive (DNSA), we adopted both, system-centric and user-centric (human judgment) evaluation over different datasets of news articles.FindingsThe proposed similarity measure is evaluated using different sizes of datasets, and the results are compared by both user-centric technique, i.e., expert judgment and system-centric techniques, i.e., cosine similarity measure, extended Jaccard measure and common ratio measure for stories (CRMS). The comparison helps to get a broader impact and can be helpful for generalization of the measure for different categories of news articles. Multiple experiments have conducted the findings of which showed that the measure presented viable results for national and international news, while best results for linking sports news articles during preservation based on headings.Originality/valueThe DNSA preserves a huge number of news articles from multiple news sources and to link with a vast collection, which encourages to introduce an efficient linking mechanism with few terms to manipulate. The CRMS is modified to deal with the headings of news articles as a part of the digital news stories preservation framework and comprehensively analysed.

“…An effective term-based approach "Common Ratio Measure for Stories (CRMS)" for linking digital news articles in DNSA is introduced that links similar news articles during the preservation process. 57 The approach is empirically analyzed, and the results of the proposed approach are compared to get conclusive arguments. The initial results computed automatically using a common ratio measure for stories are encouraging and are compared with the similarity of news articles based on human judgment.…”

Section: Digital News Stories Preservation Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Approach Towards Web Preservation

Rahman

2019

ITAL

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The main purpose of the article is to divide the web preservation process into small explicable stages and design a step-by-step web preservation process that leads to creating a well-organized web archive. A number of research articles are studied about web preservation projects and web archives, and designed a step-by-step systematic approach for web preservation. The proposed comprehensive web preservation process describes and combines strengths of different techniques observed during the study for preserving digital web contents into a digital web archive. For each web preservation step, different approaches and possible implementation techniques have been identified that can be adopted in digital archiving. The potential value of the proposed model is to guide the archivist, related personnel, and organizations to effectively preserved their intellectual digital contents for future use. Moreover, the model can help to initiate a web preservation process and create a well-organized web archive to efficiently manage the archived web contents. A section briefly describes the implementation of the proposed approach in a digital news stories preservation framework for archiving news published online from different sources.