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The publications below are key publications produced by our consortium members prior to the SFI. Future SFI publications will also be made available here and labeled accordingly.
2021 |
Khanh-Duy Le; Tanh Quang Tran; Karol Chlasta; Krzysztof Krejtz; Morten Fjeld; Andreas Kunz VXSlate: Combining Head Movement and Mobile Touch for Large Virtual Display Interaction Conference SFI MediaFutures IEEE VR 2021 2021. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Human computer interaction, Human-centered computing, Interaction techniques, New, SFI MediaFutures, Virtual Reality, WP4: Media Content Interaction and Accessibility | Links: @conference{Le2021, title = {VXSlate: Combining Head Movement and Mobile Touch for Large Virtual Display Interaction}, author = {Khanh-Duy Le and Tanh Quang Tran and Karol Chlasta and Krzysztof Krejtz and Morten Fjeld and Andreas Kunz}, url = {https://mediafutures.no/vxslate_ieee_vr_2021-2/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ZJlKWj4mk&ab_channel=DuyL%C3%AAKh%C3%A1nh}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-02-12}, pages = {1-2}, organization = {IEEE VR 2021}, series = {SFI MediaFutures}, abstract = {Virtual Reality (VR) headsets can open opportunities for users to accomplish complex tasks on large virtual displays, using compact setups. However, interacting with large virtual displays using existing interaction techniques might cause fatigue, especially for precise manipulations, due to the lack of physical surfaces. We designed VXSlate, an interaction technique that uses a large virtual display, as an expansion of a tablet. VXSlate combines a user’s head movements, as tracked by the VR headset, and touch interaction on the tablet. The user’s head movements position both a virtual representation of the tablet and of the user’s hand on the large virtual display. The user’s multi-touch interactions perform finely-tuned content manipulations.}, keywords = {Human computer interaction, Human-centered computing, Interaction techniques, New, SFI MediaFutures, Virtual Reality, WP4: Media Content Interaction and Accessibility}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } Virtual Reality (VR) headsets can open opportunities for users to accomplish complex tasks on large virtual displays, using compact setups. However, interacting with large virtual displays using existing interaction techniques might cause fatigue, especially for precise manipulations, due to the lack of physical surfaces. We designed VXSlate, an interaction technique that uses a large virtual display, as an expansion of a tablet. VXSlate combines a user’s head movements, as tracked by the VR headset, and touch interaction on the tablet. The user’s head movements position both a virtual representation of the tablet and of the user’s hand on the large virtual display. The user’s multi-touch interactions perform finely-tuned content manipulations. |
Jelena Kleut; Ana Milojevic Framing Protest in Online News and Readers’ Comments: The Case of Serbian Protest “Against Dictatorship” Journal Article International Journal of Communication, 15 (21), pp. 82-102, 2021. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: framing, Online Media, polarized media system, protest paradigm, user comments, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences | Links: @article{Kleut2021, title = {Framing Protest in Online News and Readers’ Comments: The Case of Serbian Protest “Against Dictatorship”}, author = {Jelena Kleut and Ana Milojevic}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348787747_Framing_Protest_in_Online_News_and_Readers'_Comments_The_Case_of_Serbian_Protest_Against_Dictatorship}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-01-01}, journal = {International Journal of Communication}, volume = {15}, number = {21}, pages = {82-102}, abstract = {This research examines the "protest paradigm" in the digital news environment of a politically polarized media system by considering relations between news and online readers' comments about the Serbian protest Against Dictatorship, which was held in 2017. Applying content analysis to news and comments from two news websites, our study indicates the need to account for opposing framing of the protest (violence/peacefulness, de/legitimizing and un/democratic) in a polarized environment. The results show that the distribution of opposing frames is guided by the media relations with the government. Online readers' comments generally enhance this polarized pattern of frame distribution, with the exception of the performance frame, which remains prolific in the media, but absent from readers' comments.}, keywords = {framing, Online Media, polarized media system, protest paradigm, user comments, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } This research examines the "protest paradigm" in the digital news environment of a politically polarized media system by considering relations between news and online readers' comments about the Serbian protest Against Dictatorship, which was held in 2017. Applying content analysis to news and comments from two news websites, our study indicates the need to account for opposing framing of the protest (violence/peacefulness, de/legitimizing and un/democratic) in a polarized environment. The results show that the distribution of opposing frames is guided by the media relations with the government. Online readers' comments generally enhance this polarized pattern of frame distribution, with the exception of the performance frame, which remains prolific in the media, but absent from readers' comments. |
2020 |
Brita Ytre-Arne; Hallvard Moe Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation Journal Article Media, Culture & Society, 2020. BibTeX | Tags: WP1: Understanding Media Experiences @article{Arne2020, title = {Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation}, author = {Brita Ytre-Arne and Hallvard Moe}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-12-31}, journal = {Media, Culture & Society}, keywords = {WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } |
Arne Berven; Ole A. Christensen; Sindre Moldeklev; Andreas Lothe Opdahl; Kjetil A. Villanger A knowledge-graph platform for newsrooms Journal Article Computers in Industry, 123 (103321), 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Computational journalism, Journalistic knowledge platforms, Knowledge graphs, Machine learning (ML), Natural-language processing (NLP), Newsroom systems, Ontology, OWL, RDF, Semantic technologies, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @article{Berven2020, title = {A knowledge-graph platform for newsrooms}, author = {Arne Berven and Ole A. Christensen and Sindre Moldeklev and Andreas Lothe Opdahl and Kjetil A. Villanger }, url = {https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0166361520305558?token=F8A21A513C97BFF598C2755575B3C89174B3D404E2EDDD23EC37966A2754ACA1700011EBBCF52ADE2845ADBC12D40041}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2020.103321}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-12-01}, journal = {Computers in Industry}, volume = {123}, number = {103321}, abstract = {Journalism is challenged by digitalisation and social media, resulting in lower subscription numbers and reduced advertising income. Information and communication techniques (ICT) offer new opportunities. Our research group is collaborating with a software developer of news production tools for the international market to explore how social, open, and other data sources can be leveraged for journalistic purposes. We have developed an architecture and prototype called News Hunter that uses knowledge graphs, natural-language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML) together to support journalists. Our focus is on combining existing data sources and computation and storage techniques into a flexible architecture for news journalism. The paper presents News Hunter along with plans and possibilities for future work.}, keywords = {Computational journalism, Journalistic knowledge platforms, Knowledge graphs, Machine learning (ML), Natural-language processing (NLP), Newsroom systems, Ontology, OWL, RDF, Semantic technologies, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Journalism is challenged by digitalisation and social media, resulting in lower subscription numbers and reduced advertising income. Information and communication techniques (ICT) offer new opportunities. Our research group is collaborating with a software developer of news production tools for the international market to explore how social, open, and other data sources can be leveraged for journalistic purposes. We have developed an architecture and prototype called News Hunter that uses knowledge graphs, natural-language processing (NLP), and machine learning (ML) together to support journalists. Our focus is on combining existing data sources and computation and storage techniques into a flexible architecture for news journalism. The paper presents News Hunter along with plans and possibilities for future work. |
Cathal Gurrin; Hideo Joho; Frank Hopfgartner; Liting Zhou; Rami Albatal; Graham Healy; Duc-Tien Dang Nguyen Experiments in Lifelog Organisation and Retrieval at NTCIR Book Chapter Evaluating Information Retrieval and Access Tasks, Chapter 13, pp. 187-203, Springer, Singapore, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @inbook{Gurrin2020, title = {Experiments in Lifelog Organisation and Retrieval at NTCIR}, author = {Cathal Gurrin and Hideo Joho and Frank Hopfgartner and Liting Zhou and Rami Albatal and Graham Healy and Duc-Tien Dang Nguyen}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344047066_Experiments_in_Lifelog_Organisation_and_Retrieval_at_NTCIR}, doi = {10.1007/978-981-15-5554-1_13}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-12-01}, booktitle = {Evaluating Information Retrieval and Access Tasks}, pages = {187-203}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Singapore}, chapter = {13}, abstract = {Lifelogging can be described as the process by which individuals use various software and hardware devices to gather large archives of multimodal personal data from multiple sources and store them in a personal data archive, called a lifelog. The Lifelog task at NTCIR was a comparative benchmarking exercise with the aim of encouraging research into the organisation and retrieval of data from multimodal lifelogs. The Lifelog task ran for over 4 years from NTCIR-12 until NTCIR-14 (2015.02–2019.06); it supported participants to submit to five subtasks, each tackling a different challenge related to lifelog retrieval. In this chapter, a motivation is given for the Lifelog task and a review of progress since NTCIR-12 is presented. Finally, the lessons learned and challenges within the domain of lifelog retrieval are presented.}, keywords = {WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } Lifelogging can be described as the process by which individuals use various software and hardware devices to gather large archives of multimodal personal data from multiple sources and store them in a personal data archive, called a lifelog. The Lifelog task at NTCIR was a comparative benchmarking exercise with the aim of encouraging research into the organisation and retrieval of data from multimodal lifelogs. The Lifelog task ran for over 4 years from NTCIR-12 until NTCIR-14 (2015.02–2019.06); it supported participants to submit to five subtasks, each tackling a different challenge related to lifelog retrieval. In this chapter, a motivation is given for the Lifelog task and a review of progress since NTCIR-12 is presented. Finally, the lessons learned and challenges within the domain of lifelog retrieval are presented. |
Samia Touileb; Lilja Øvrelid; Erik Velldal Gender and sentiment, critics and authors: a dataset of Norwegian book reviews Journal Article Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies | Links: @article{Touileb2020, title = {Gender and sentiment, critics and authors: a dataset of Norwegian book reviews}, author = {Samia Touileb and Lilja Øvrelid and Erik Velldal}, url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.gebnlp-1.11.pdf}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-12-01}, journal = {Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics}, abstract = {Gender bias in models and datasets is widely studied in NLP. The focus has usually been on analysing how females and males express themselves, or how females and males are described. However, a less studied aspect is the combination of these two perspectives, how female and male describe the same or opposite gender. In this paper, we present a new gender annotated sentiment dataset of critics reviewing the works of female and male authors. We investigate if this newly annotated dataset contains differences in how the works of male and female authors are critiqued, in particular in terms of positive and negative sentiment. We also explore the differences in how this is done by male and female critics. We show that there are differences in how critics assess the works of authors of the same or opposite gender. For example, male critics rate crime novels written by females, and romantic and sentimental works written by males, more negatively.}, keywords = {WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Gender bias in models and datasets is widely studied in NLP. The focus has usually been on analysing how females and males express themselves, or how females and males are described. However, a less studied aspect is the combination of these two perspectives, how female and male describe the same or opposite gender. In this paper, we present a new gender annotated sentiment dataset of critics reviewing the works of female and male authors. We investigate if this newly annotated dataset contains differences in how the works of male and female authors are critiqued, in particular in terms of positive and negative sentiment. We also explore the differences in how this is done by male and female critics. We show that there are differences in how critics assess the works of authors of the same or opposite gender. For example, male critics rate crime novels written by females, and romantic and sentimental works written by males, more negatively. |
J Barnes; Erik Velldal; Lilja Øvrelid Improving sentiment analysis with multi-task learning of negation Journal Article 2020. BibTeX | Tags: WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies | Links: @article{Barnes2020, title = {Improving sentiment analysis with multi-task learning of negation}, author = {J Barnes and Erik Velldal and Lilja Øvrelid}, url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/article/abs/improving-sentiment-analysis-with-multitask-learning-of-negation/14EF2B829EC4B8EC29E7C0C5C77B95B0}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-11-11}, keywords = {WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } |
Irene Costera Meijer; Tim Groot Kormelink Changing news use. Unchanged news experiences? Book Routledge, 2020, ISBN: 9780367485788. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP1: Understanding Media Experiences | Links: @book{Meijer2020c, title = {Changing news use. Unchanged news experiences?}, author = {Irene Costera Meijer and Tim Groot Kormelink}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/Changing-News-Use-Unchanged-News-Experiences/Meijer-Kormelink/p/book/9780367485788}, isbn = {9780367485788}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-11-09}, publisher = {Routledge}, abstract = {Changing News Use pulls from empirical research to introduce and describe how changing news user patterns and journalism practices have been mutually disruptive, exploring what journalists and the news media can learn from these changes. Based on 15 years of audience research, the authors provide an in-depth description of what people do with news and how this has diversified over time, from reading, watching, and listening to a broader spectrum of user practices including checking, scrolling, tagging, and avoiding. By emphasizing people’s own experience of journalism, this book also investigates what two prominent audience measurements – clicking and spending time – mean from a user perspective. The book outlines ways to overcome the dilemma of providing what people apparently want (attentiongrabbing news features) and delivering what people apparently need (what journalists see as important information), suggesting alternative ways to investigate and become sensitive to the practices, preferences, and pleasures of audiences and discussing what these research findings might mean for everyday journalism practice. The book is a valuable and timely resource for academics and researchers interested in the fields of journalism studies, sociology, digital media, and communication.}, keywords = {WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } Changing News Use pulls from empirical research to introduce and describe how changing news user patterns and journalism practices have been mutually disruptive, exploring what journalists and the news media can learn from these changes. Based on 15 years of audience research, the authors provide an in-depth description of what people do with news and how this has diversified over time, from reading, watching, and listening to a broader spectrum of user practices including checking, scrolling, tagging, and avoiding. By emphasizing people’s own experience of journalism, this book also investigates what two prominent audience measurements – clicking and spending time – mean from a user perspective. The book outlines ways to overcome the dilemma of providing what people apparently want (attentiongrabbing news features) and delivering what people apparently need (what journalists see as important information), suggesting alternative ways to investigate and become sensitive to the practices, preferences, and pleasures of audiences and discussing what these research findings might mean for everyday journalism practice. The book is a valuable and timely resource for academics and researchers interested in the fields of journalism studies, sociology, digital media, and communication. |
Ulle Endriss; Ronald de Haan; Jerôme Lang; Marija Slavkovik The complexity landscape of outcome determination in judgment aggregation Journal Article Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 69 , pp. 687–731, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement | Links: @article{Endriss2020, title = {The complexity landscape of outcome determination in judgment aggregation}, author = {Ulle Endriss and Ronald de Haan and Jerôme Lang and Marija Slavkovik }, url = {https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/11970/26619}, doi = {10.1613/jair.1.11970}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-11-04}, journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research}, volume = {69}, pages = {687–731}, abstract = {We provide a comprehensive analysis of the computational complexity of the outcome determinationproblem for the most important aggregation rules proposed in the literature on logic-based judgmentaggregation. Judgment aggregation is a powerful and flexible framework for studying problems ofcollective decision making that has attracted interest in a range of disciplines, including Legal Theory,Philosophy, Economics, Political Science, and Artificial Intelligence. The problem of computing theoutcome for a given list of individual judgments to be aggregated into a single collective judgment isthe most fundamental algorithmic challenge arising in this context. Our analysis applies to severaldifferent variants of the basic framework of judgment aggregation that have been discussed in theliterature, as well as to a new framework that encompasses all existing such frameworks in terms ofexpressive power and representational succinctness.}, keywords = {WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } We provide a comprehensive analysis of the computational complexity of the outcome determinationproblem for the most important aggregation rules proposed in the literature on logic-based judgmentaggregation. Judgment aggregation is a powerful and flexible framework for studying problems ofcollective decision making that has attracted interest in a range of disciplines, including Legal Theory,Philosophy, Economics, Political Science, and Artificial Intelligence. The problem of computing theoutcome for a given list of individual judgments to be aggregated into a single collective judgment isthe most fundamental algorithmic challenge arising in this context. Our analysis applies to severaldifferent variants of the basic framework of judgment aggregation that have been discussed in theliterature, as well as to a new framework that encompasses all existing such frameworks in terms ofexpressive power and representational succinctness. |
Danilo Dessì; Francesco Osborne; Diego Reforgiato Recupero; Davide Buscaldi; Enrico Motta; Harald Sack AI-KG: an automatically generated knowledge graph of artificial intelligence Conference nternational Semantic Web Conference, Springer, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @conference{Dessì2020, title = {AI-KG: an automatically generated knowledge graph of artificial intelligence}, author = {Danilo Dessì and Francesco Osborne and Diego Reforgiato Recupero and Davide Buscaldi and Enrico Motta and Harald Sack}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344991487_AI-KG_an_Automatically_Generated_Knowledge_Graph_of_Artificial_Intelligence}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-11-01}, booktitle = {nternational Semantic Web Conference}, pages = {127-143}, publisher = {Springer}, abstract = {Scientific knowledge has been traditionally disseminated and preserved through research articles published in journals, conference proceedings , and online archives. However, this article-centric paradigm has been often criticized for not allowing to automatically process, categorize , and reason on this knowledge. An alternative vision is to generate a semantically rich and interlinked description of the content of research publications. In this paper, we present the Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Graph (AI-KG), a large-scale automatically generated knowledge graph that describes 820K research entities. AI-KG includes about 14M RDF triples and 1.2M reified statements extracted from 333K research publications in the field of AI, and describes 5 types of entities (tasks, methods, metrics, materials, others) linked by 27 relations. AI-KG has been designed to support a variety of intelligent services for analyzing and making sense of research dynamics, supporting researchers in their daily job, and helping to inform decision-making in funding bodies and research policymakers. AI-KG has been generated by applying an automatic pipeline that extracts entities and relationships using three tools: DyGIE++, Stanford CoreNLP, and the CSO Classifier. It then integrates and filters the resulting triples using a combination of deep learning and semantic technologies in order to produce a high-quality knowledge graph. This pipeline was evaluated on a manually crafted gold standard, yielding competitive results. AI-KG is available under CC BY 4.0 and can be downloaded as a dump or queried via a SPARQL endpoint.}, keywords = {WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } Scientific knowledge has been traditionally disseminated and preserved through research articles published in journals, conference proceedings , and online archives. However, this article-centric paradigm has been often criticized for not allowing to automatically process, categorize , and reason on this knowledge. An alternative vision is to generate a semantically rich and interlinked description of the content of research publications. In this paper, we present the Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Graph (AI-KG), a large-scale automatically generated knowledge graph that describes 820K research entities. AI-KG includes about 14M RDF triples and 1.2M reified statements extracted from 333K research publications in the field of AI, and describes 5 types of entities (tasks, methods, metrics, materials, others) linked by 27 relations. AI-KG has been designed to support a variety of intelligent services for analyzing and making sense of research dynamics, supporting researchers in their daily job, and helping to inform decision-making in funding bodies and research policymakers. AI-KG has been generated by applying an automatic pipeline that extracts entities and relationships using three tools: DyGIE++, Stanford CoreNLP, and the CSO Classifier. It then integrates and filters the resulting triples using a combination of deep learning and semantic technologies in order to produce a high-quality knowledge graph. This pipeline was evaluated on a manually crafted gold standard, yielding competitive results. AI-KG is available under CC BY 4.0 and can be downloaded as a dump or queried via a SPARQL endpoint. |
Hallvard Moe; Jan Fredrik Hovden; Kari Karppinen Operationalizing exposure diversity. Journal Article European Journal of Communication, pp. 1-2, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Exposure Diversity, Media Diversity, Media Policy, Media Repertoires, Survey, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences | Links: @article{Moe2020, title = {Operationalizing exposure diversity.}, author = {Hallvard Moe and Jan Fredrik Hovden and Kari Karppinen}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0267323120966849}, doi = {10.1177/0267323120966849}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-10-29}, journal = {European Journal of Communication}, pages = {1-2}, abstract = {The concept of exposure diversity, the diversity of information that people actually access and use, has recently gained prominence in media policy debates. This aspect of media diversity, however, remains difficult to define, measure or implement in actual policy. In this article, we propose an empirical approach that operationalizes exposure diversity in terms of news and current affairs providers in the media repertoire of different social groups. This can be studied through cluster analysis of survey data on respondents’ combinations of use of different media providers and outlets. The article first discusses exposure diversity as a media policy aim. We then outline our proposal on how to take the debate a step further through empirical analysis of media repertoires, with an illustration of how such an analysis may be conducted using survey data from Norway.}, keywords = {Exposure Diversity, Media Diversity, Media Policy, Media Repertoires, Survey, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } The concept of exposure diversity, the diversity of information that people actually access and use, has recently gained prominence in media policy debates. This aspect of media diversity, however, remains difficult to define, measure or implement in actual policy. In this article, we propose an empirical approach that operationalizes exposure diversity in terms of news and current affairs providers in the media repertoire of different social groups. This can be studied through cluster analysis of survey data on respondents’ combinations of use of different media providers and outlets. The article first discusses exposure diversity as a media policy aim. We then outline our proposal on how to take the debate a step further through empirical analysis of media repertoires, with an illustration of how such an analysis may be conducted using survey data from Norway. |
Naieme Hazrati; Mehdi Elahi Addressing the New Item problem in video recommender systems by incorporation of visual features with restricted Boltzmann machines. Journal Article Expert Systems, e12645 , pp. 1-20, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Cold Start, Multimedia, New Item, Recommender systems, Visually Aware, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement | Links: @article{Hazrati2020, title = { Addressing the New Item problem in video recommender systems by incorporation of visual features with restricted Boltzmann machines.}, author = {Naieme Hazrati and Mehdi Elahi}, url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/exsy.12645}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12645}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-10-19}, journal = {Expert Systems}, volume = {e12645}, pages = {1-20}, abstract = {Over the past years, the research of video recommender systems (RSs) has been mainly focussed on the development of novel algorithms. Although beneficial, still any algorithm may fail to recommend video items that the system has no form of data associated to them (New Item Cold Start). This problem occurs when a new item is added to the catalogue of the system and no data are available for that item. In content‐based RSs, the video items are typically represented by semantic attributes, when generating recommendations. These attributes require a group of experts or users for annotation, and still, the generated recommendations might not capture a complete picture of the users' preferences, for example, the visual tastes of users on video style. This article addresses this problem by proposing recommendation based on novel visual features that do not require human annotation and can represent visual aspects of video items. We have designed a novel evaluation methodology considering three realistic scenarios, that is, (a) extreme cold start, (b) moderate cold start and (c) warm‐start scenario. We have conducted a set of comprehensive experiments, and our results have shown the superior performance of recommendations based on visual features, in all of the evaluation scenarios.}, keywords = {Cold Start, Multimedia, New Item, Recommender systems, Visually Aware, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Over the past years, the research of video recommender systems (RSs) has been mainly focussed on the development of novel algorithms. Although beneficial, still any algorithm may fail to recommend video items that the system has no form of data associated to them (New Item Cold Start). This problem occurs when a new item is added to the catalogue of the system and no data are available for that item. In content‐based RSs, the video items are typically represented by semantic attributes, when generating recommendations. These attributes require a group of experts or users for annotation, and still, the generated recommendations might not capture a complete picture of the users' preferences, for example, the visual tastes of users on video style. This article addresses this problem by proposing recommendation based on novel visual features that do not require human annotation and can represent visual aspects of video items. We have designed a novel evaluation methodology considering three realistic scenarios, that is, (a) extreme cold start, (b) moderate cold start and (c) warm‐start scenario. We have conducted a set of comprehensive experiments, and our results have shown the superior performance of recommendations based on visual features, in all of the evaluation scenarios. |
Vinay Setty; Erlend Rekve Truth be told: Fake news detection using user reactions on reddit Journal Article Proceedings of the 29th acm international conference on information knowledge management, pp. 3325–3328, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Deep neural networks, Fake news detection, Reddit comments, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @article{Setty2020, title = {Truth be told: Fake news detection using user reactions on reddit}, author = {Vinay Setty and Erlend Rekve}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3340531.3417463}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3340531.3417463}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-10-01}, journal = {Proceedings of the 29th acm international conference on information knowledge management}, pages = {3325–3328}, abstract = {In this paper, we provide a large dataset for fake news detection using social media comments. The dataset consists of 12,597 claims (of which 63% are labelled as fake) from four different sources (Snopes, Poltifact, Emergent and Twitter). The novel part of the dataset is that it also includes over 662K social media discussion comments related to these claims from Reddit. We make this dataset public for the research community. In addition, for the task of fake news detection using social media comments, we provide a simple but strong baseline solution deep neural network model which beats several solutions in the literature.}, keywords = {Deep neural networks, Fake news detection, Reddit comments, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } In this paper, we provide a large dataset for fake news detection using social media comments. The dataset consists of 12,597 claims (of which 63% are labelled as fake) from four different sources (Snopes, Poltifact, Emergent and Twitter). The novel part of the dataset is that it also includes over 662K social media discussion comments related to these claims from Reddit. We make this dataset public for the research community. In addition, for the task of fake news detection using social media comments, we provide a simple but strong baseline solution deep neural network model which beats several solutions in the literature. |
Brita Ytre-Arne; Trine Syvertsen; Hallvard Moe; Faltin Karlsen Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities. Journal Article New Media and Society, 22 (9), pp. 1715–1732, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Ambivalence, Flow, Media Use, Responsibilization, Smartphone, Time Management, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences | Links: @article{Arne2020b, title = {Temporal ambivalences in smartphone use: Conflicting flows, conflicting responsibilities.}, author = {Brita Ytre-Arne and Trine Syvertsen and Hallvard Moe and Faltin Karlsen }, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1461444820913561}, doi = {10.1177/1461444820913561}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-09-03}, journal = {New Media and Society}, volume = {22}, number = {9}, pages = {1715–1732}, abstract = {This article explores implications of the central position of the smartphone in an age of constant connectivity. Based on a qualitative study of 50 informants, we ask how users experience and handle temporal ambivalences in everyday smartphone use, drawing on the concepts flow and responsibilization to conceptualize central dimensions of such ambivalences. The notion of conflicting flows illuminates how brief checking cycles expand at the expense of other activities, resulting in a temporal conflict experienced by users. Responsibilization points to how users take individual responsibility for managing such conflicting flows, and to how this practice is difficult and conflict-ridden. We conclude that while individual time management is often framed as the solution to temporal conflicts, such attempts at regulating smartphone use appear inadequate. Our conceptualization of temporal ambivalence offers a more nuanced understanding of why this is the case.}, keywords = {Ambivalence, Flow, Media Use, Responsibilization, Smartphone, Time Management, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } This article explores implications of the central position of the smartphone in an age of constant connectivity. Based on a qualitative study of 50 informants, we ask how users experience and handle temporal ambivalences in everyday smartphone use, drawing on the concepts flow and responsibilization to conceptualize central dimensions of such ambivalences. The notion of conflicting flows illuminates how brief checking cycles expand at the expense of other activities, resulting in a temporal conflict experienced by users. Responsibilization points to how users take individual responsibility for managing such conflicting flows, and to how this practice is difficult and conflict-ridden. We conclude that while individual time management is often framed as the solution to temporal conflicts, such attempts at regulating smartphone use appear inadequate. Our conceptualization of temporal ambivalence offers a more nuanced understanding of why this is the case. |
Irene Costera Meijer; Tim Groot Kormelink Changing News Use. Unchanged news experiences? Book 1st, Routledge, London & New York, 2020, ISBN: 9781003041719. BibTeX | Tags: Changing News Use, Journalism, News, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences | Links: @book{Meijer2020, title = {Changing News Use. Unchanged news experiences?}, author = {Irene Costera Meijer and Tim Groot Kormelink }, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345018999_Changing_News_Use_Unchanged_News_Experiences}, doi = {10.4324/9781003041719}, isbn = {9781003041719}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-09-01}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London & New York}, edition = {1st}, keywords = {Changing News Use, Journalism, News, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {book} } |
Brita Ytre-Arne; Ranjana Das Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective. Journal Article Communication Theory, 0 (C), pp. 1-19, 2020, ISSN: 1050–3293. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Agency, Audiences, Datafication, Everyday, Interpretation, Prospection, Reception Theory, Sociological Theory, Structure, Technology, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences | Links: @article{Arne2020c, title = {Audiences’ Communicative Agency in a Datafied Age: Interpretative, Relational and Increasingly Prospective.}, author = {Brita Ytre-Arne and Ranjana Das}, url = {https://watermark.silverchair.com/qtaa018.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAtAwggLMBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggK9MIICuQIBADCCArIGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQM-cFhCl8ql-5yUsJoAgEQgIICg0JoOiOVaCIdOstGjiiVpYuTKzqRfP7Hb1L0JBUB7TMpOQ5ya4v7afXtJvvTasi126A8qHSxK2rDZfeWFajUD34XXIbXVfimKI-a7-dZNYNjF6xn9p5OzsBABo10PuVtS5bHE4B3RSURKpRgGKXIyem7o-HzoTgKWKxJjRuOEVJNX4XjUC9-D9C7f8n3BItvYkMJqiX8NRSmuM3MI1MmhCjjtrUEOaURe-mCNKonobiYtkdoywElD9W7SG0ZQg9nigzcJmEH36Rbf3jzaGMMQhOsTv0NCAFwm52wxxeqt1jlSX6GmjMPmwTTmhZNGPE-sD0j3VZEfzqZNb5RqOBv2tih20z3kz2mBAU_25OlUThhSQ_G9-dNMVfVsuKMbo6TnS8EUotKdlWDmmenYUmQdHFx6KHA2mFn3j0AYyqz9Kolc2HeSSu4JJhZMZGHIUkNVC5c-GPPCzpO4D5pCT3pNw2d4mK037ziOWPOKcr29Ak2sJlQ05rcn4NovqBWrNIeRQRuhlVyNI7nr7bIXXFMwogvhFttUt3IxH68cYD6nNQ1Gbtl2BwygLseOwrwZA_6irZcqueVtAwqzMchowERFcKR8gMPKyDiDGPfbbKMNvqeHeIvemaQSLnfLM7Lfj9-OYtxOgF6CxZTrbOcCTUVpnvwTIZO1Oq2amSRBEb2lCORDiegqrxTitstUZ141VXW5bId94vwLuZqPoYA58nNcF0_2WzAOB69owF5B7D_ofDUTA2tBAhuvcvwKpAB5t_bhLDscuVfVGcYi5azd06oQ9PJWPV5EigzleuyHR57_cVyPpYkXe-PimZJ6iZzEhnmYZE0v9A_9F2LYm9dwfEryznsCog}, doi = {10.1093/ct/qtaa018}, issn = {1050–3293}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-08-24}, journal = {Communication Theory}, volume = {0}, number = {C}, pages = {1-19}, abstract = {This article develops a conceptualization of audience agency in the face of datafication. We consider how people, as audiences and users of media and technologies, face transforming communicative conditions, and how these conditions challenge the power potentials of audiences in processes of communication—that is, their communicative agency. To develop our conceptualization, we unpack the concept of audiences’ communicative agency by examining its foundations in communication scholarship, in reception theory and sociology, arguing that agency is understood as interpretative and relational, and applied to make important normative assessments. We further draw on emerging scholarship on encounters with data in the everyday to discuss how audience agency is now challenged by datafication, arguing that communicative agency is increasingly prospective in a datafied age. Thereby, we provide a theoretical conceptualization for further analysis of audiences in transforming communicative conditions.}, keywords = {Agency, Audiences, Datafication, Everyday, Interpretation, Prospection, Reception Theory, Sociological Theory, Structure, Technology, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } This article develops a conceptualization of audience agency in the face of datafication. We consider how people, as audiences and users of media and technologies, face transforming communicative conditions, and how these conditions challenge the power potentials of audiences in processes of communication—that is, their communicative agency. To develop our conceptualization, we unpack the concept of audiences’ communicative agency by examining its foundations in communication scholarship, in reception theory and sociology, arguing that agency is understood as interpretative and relational, and applied to make important normative assessments. We further draw on emerging scholarship on encounters with data in the everyday to discuss how audience agency is now challenged by datafication, arguing that communicative agency is increasingly prospective in a datafied age. Thereby, we provide a theoretical conceptualization for further analysis of audiences in transforming communicative conditions. |
J Barnes; Lilja Øvrelid; Erik Velldal Sentiment analysis is not solved! Assessing and probing sentiment classification Proceeding 2020. BibTeX | Tags: WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies | Links: @proceedings{Barnes2020b, title = {Sentiment analysis is not solved! Assessing and probing sentiment classification}, author = {J Barnes and Lilja Øvrelid and Erik Velldal}, url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-4802/}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-08-01}, keywords = {WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {proceedings} } |
Krisztian Balog; Filip Radlinski Measuring Recommendation Explanation Quality: The Conflicting Goals of Explanations Conference Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '20), New York, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: HCI design and evaluation methods, Human-centered computing, Information Systems, Recommender systems, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement | Links: @conference{Balog2020, title = {Measuring Recommendation Explanation Quality: The Conflicting Goals of Explanations}, author = {Krisztian Balog and Filip Radlinski}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3397271.3401032}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3397271.3401032}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-07-01}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '20)}, pages = {329–338}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Explanations have a large effect on how people respond to recommendations. However, there are many possible intentions a system may have in generating explanations for a given recommendation -from increasing transparency, to enabling a faster decision, to persuading the recipient. As a good explanation for one goal may not be good for others, we address the questions of (1) how to robustly measure if an explanation meets a given goal and (2) how the different goals interact with each other. Specifically, this paper presents a first proposal of how to measure the quality of explanations along seven common goal dimensions catalogued in the literature. We find that the seven goals are not independent, but rather exhibit strong structure. Proposing two novel explanation evaluation designs, we identify challenges in evaluation, and provide more efficient measurement approaches of explanation quality.}, keywords = {HCI design and evaluation methods, Human-centered computing, Information Systems, Recommender systems, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } Explanations have a large effect on how people respond to recommendations. However, there are many possible intentions a system may have in generating explanations for a given recommendation -from increasing transparency, to enabling a faster decision, to persuading the recipient. As a good explanation for one goal may not be good for others, we address the questions of (1) how to robustly measure if an explanation meets a given goal and (2) how the different goals interact with each other. Specifically, this paper presents a first proposal of how to measure the quality of explanations along seven common goal dimensions catalogued in the literature. We find that the seven goals are not independent, but rather exhibit strong structure. Proposing two novel explanation evaluation designs, we identify challenges in evaluation, and provide more efficient measurement approaches of explanation quality. |
Enrico Motta; Enrico Daga; Andreas Lothe Opdahl; Bjørnar Tessem Analysis and design of computational news angles Journal Article IEEE Access, 8 , pp. 120613-120626, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Computational journalism, Data schema, Knowledge representation, News angles, Ontology, Reasoning components., WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @article{Motta2020, title = {Analysis and design of computational news angles}, author = {Enrico Motta and Enrico Daga and Andreas Lothe Opdahl and Bjørnar Tessem}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9127417}, doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3005513}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-06-29}, journal = {IEEE Access}, volume = {8}, pages = {120613-120626}, abstract = {A key skill for a journalist is the ability to assess the newsworthiness of an event or situation. To this purpose journalists often rely on news angles, conceptual criteria that are used both i) to assess whether something is newsworthy and also ii) to shape the structure of the resulting news item. As journalism becomes increasingly computer-supported, and more and more sources of potentially newsworthy data become available in real time, it makes sense to try and equip journalistic software tools with operational versions of news angles, so that, when searching this vast data space, these tools can both identify effectively the events most relevant to the target audience, and also link them to appropriate news angles. In this paper we analyse the notion of news angle and, in particular, we i) introduce a formal framework and data schema for representing news angles and related concepts and ii) carry out a preliminary analysis and characterization of a number of commonly used news angles, both in terms of our formal model and also in terms of the computational reasoning capabilities that are needed to apply them effectively to real-world scenarios. This study provides a stepping stone towards our ultimate goal of realizing a solution capable of exploiting a library of news angles to identify potentially newsworthy events in a large journalistic data space.}, keywords = {Computational journalism, Data schema, Knowledge representation, News angles, Ontology, Reasoning components., WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } A key skill for a journalist is the ability to assess the newsworthiness of an event or situation. To this purpose journalists often rely on news angles, conceptual criteria that are used both i) to assess whether something is newsworthy and also ii) to shape the structure of the resulting news item. As journalism becomes increasingly computer-supported, and more and more sources of potentially newsworthy data become available in real time, it makes sense to try and equip journalistic software tools with operational versions of news angles, so that, when searching this vast data space, these tools can both identify effectively the events most relevant to the target audience, and also link them to appropriate news angles. In this paper we analyse the notion of news angle and, in particular, we i) introduce a formal framework and data schema for representing news angles and related concepts and ii) carry out a preliminary analysis and characterization of a number of commonly used news angles, both in terms of our formal model and also in terms of the computational reasoning capabilities that are needed to apply them effectively to real-world scenarios. This study provides a stepping stone towards our ultimate goal of realizing a solution capable of exploiting a library of news angles to identify potentially newsworthy events in a large journalistic data space. |
Than Htut Soe; Oda Elise Nordberg; Frode Guribye; Marija Slavkovik Circumvention by design - dark patterns in cookie consents for online news outlets Conference Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement | Links: @conference{Soe2020, title = {Circumvention by design - dark patterns in cookie consents for online news outlets}, author = {Than Htut Soe and Oda Elise Nordberg and Frode Guribye and Marija Slavkovik}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3419249.3420132}, doi = {10.1145/3419249.3420132}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-06-24}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction}, abstract = {To ensure that users of online services understand what data are collected and how they are used in algorithmic decision-making, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) specifies informed consent as a minimal requirement. For online news outlets consent is commonly elicited through interface design elements in the form of a pop-up. We have manually analyzed 300 data collection consent notices from news outlets that are built to ensure compliance with GDPR. The analysis uncovered a variety of strategies or dark patterns that circumvent the intent of GDPR by design. We further study the presence and variety of these dark patterns in these "cookie consents" and use our observations to specify the concept of dark pattern in the context of consent elicitation.}, keywords = {WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } To ensure that users of online services understand what data are collected and how they are used in algorithmic decision-making, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) specifies informed consent as a minimal requirement. For online news outlets consent is commonly elicited through interface design elements in the form of a pop-up. We have manually analyzed 300 data collection consent notices from news outlets that are built to ensure compliance with GDPR. The analysis uncovered a variety of strategies or dark patterns that circumvent the intent of GDPR by design. We further study the presence and variety of these dark patterns in these "cookie consents" and use our observations to specify the concept of dark pattern in the context of consent elicitation. |
Ingrid Nunes; Dietmar Jannach A Systematic Review and Taxonomy of Explanations in Decision Support and Recommender Systems Journal Article User-Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 27 (3-5), pp. 393-444, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support System, Expert System, Explanation, Knowledge-based system, Machine Learning, Recommender systems, Systematic review, Trust, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement | Links: @article{Nunes2020, title = {A Systematic Review and Taxonomy of Explanations in Decision Support and Recommender Systems}, author = {Ingrid Nunes and Dietmar Jannach}, url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08672.pdf}, doi = {10.1007/s11257-017-9195-0}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-06-15}, journal = {User-Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction}, volume = {27}, number = {3-5}, pages = {393-444}, abstract = {With the recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence, an increasing number of decision-making tasks are delegated to software systems. A key requirement for the success and adoption of such systems is that users must trust system choices or even fully automated decisions. To achieve this, explanation facilities have been widely investigated as a means of establishing trust in these systems since the early years of expert systems. With today's increasingly sophisticated machine learning algorithms, new challenges in the context of explanations, accountability, and trust towards such systems constantly arise. In this work, we systematically review the literature on explanations in advice-giving systems. This is a family of systems that includes recommender systems, which is one of the most successful classes of advice-giving software in practice. We investigate the purposes of explanations as well as how they are generated, presented to users, and evaluated. As a result, we derive a novel comprehensive taxonomy of aspects to be considered when designing explanation facilities for current and future decision support systems. The taxonomy includes a variety of different facets, such as explanation objective, responsiveness, content and presentation. Moreover, we identified several challenges that remain unaddressed so far, for example related to fine-grained issues associated with the presentation of explanations and how explanation facilities are evaluated.}, keywords = {Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support System, Expert System, Explanation, Knowledge-based system, Machine Learning, Recommender systems, Systematic review, Trust, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } With the recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence, an increasing number of decision-making tasks are delegated to software systems. A key requirement for the success and adoption of such systems is that users must trust system choices or even fully automated decisions. To achieve this, explanation facilities have been widely investigated as a means of establishing trust in these systems since the early years of expert systems. With today's increasingly sophisticated machine learning algorithms, new challenges in the context of explanations, accountability, and trust towards such systems constantly arise. In this work, we systematically review the literature on explanations in advice-giving systems. This is a family of systems that includes recommender systems, which is one of the most successful classes of advice-giving software in practice. We investigate the purposes of explanations as well as how they are generated, presented to users, and evaluated. As a result, we derive a novel comprehensive taxonomy of aspects to be considered when designing explanation facilities for current and future decision support systems. The taxonomy includes a variety of different facets, such as explanation objective, responsiveness, content and presentation. Moreover, we identified several challenges that remain unaddressed so far, for example related to fine-grained issues associated with the presentation of explanations and how explanation facilities are evaluated. |
Pavel Okopnyi; Oskar Juhlin; Frode Guribye Unpacking Editorial Agreements in Collaborative Video Production Conference IMX '20: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, New York, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP4: Media Content Interaction and Accessibility | Links: @conference{Okopnyi2020, title = {Unpacking Editorial Agreements in Collaborative Video Production}, author = {Pavel Okopnyi and Oskar Juhlin and Frode Guribye}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342251635_Unpacking_Editorial_Agreements_in_Collaborative_Video_Production}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3391614.3393652}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-06-01}, booktitle = {IMX '20: ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences}, pages = {117–126}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Video production is a collaborative process involving creative, artistic and technical elements that require a multitude of specialised skill sets. This open-ended work is often marked by uncertainty and interpretive flexibility in terms of what the product is and should be. At the same time, most current video production tools are designed for single users. There is a growing interest, both in industry and academia, to design features that support key collaborative processes in editing, such as commenting on videos. We add to current research by unpacking specific forms of collaboration, in particular the social mechanisms and strategies employed to reduce interpretive flexibility and uncertainty in achieving agreements between editors and other collaborators. The findings contribute to the emerging design interest by identifying general design paths for how to support collaboration in video editing through scaffolding, iconic referencing, and suggestive editing.}, keywords = {WP4: Media Content Interaction and Accessibility}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } Video production is a collaborative process involving creative, artistic and technical elements that require a multitude of specialised skill sets. This open-ended work is often marked by uncertainty and interpretive flexibility in terms of what the product is and should be. At the same time, most current video production tools are designed for single users. There is a growing interest, both in industry and academia, to design features that support key collaborative processes in editing, such as commenting on videos. We add to current research by unpacking specific forms of collaboration, in particular the social mechanisms and strategies employed to reduce interpretive flexibility and uncertainty in achieving agreements between editors and other collaborators. The findings contribute to the emerging design interest by identifying general design paths for how to support collaboration in video editing through scaffolding, iconic referencing, and suggestive editing. |
Andreas Lothe Opdahl; Bjørnar Tessem Ontologies for finding journalistic angles Journal Article Software and Systems Modeling, pp. 1-17, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @article{Ophdal2020, title = {Ontologies for finding journalistic angles}, author = {Andreas Lothe Opdahl and Bjørnar Tessem}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342132642_Ontologies_for_finding_journalistic_angles}, doi = {10.1007/s10270-020-00801-w}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-06-01}, journal = {Software and Systems Modeling}, pages = {1-17}, abstract = {Journalism relies more and more on information and communication technology (ICT). ICT-based journalistic knowledge platforms continuously harvest potentially news-relevant information from the Internet and make it useful for journalists. Because information about the same event is available from different sources and formats vary widely, knowledge graphs are emerging as a preferred technology for integrating, enriching, and preparing information for journalistic use. The paper explores how journalistic knowledge graphs can be augmented with support for news angles, which can help journalists to detect newsworthy events and make them interesting for the intended audience. We argue that finding newsworthy angles on news-related information is an important example of a topical problem in information science: that of detecting interesting events and situations in big data sets and presenting those events and situations in interesting ways}, keywords = {WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Journalism relies more and more on information and communication technology (ICT). ICT-based journalistic knowledge platforms continuously harvest potentially news-relevant information from the Internet and make it useful for journalists. Because information about the same event is available from different sources and formats vary widely, knowledge graphs are emerging as a preferred technology for integrating, enriching, and preparing information for journalistic use. The paper explores how journalistic knowledge graphs can be augmented with support for news angles, which can help journalists to detect newsworthy events and make them interesting for the intended audience. We argue that finding newsworthy angles on news-related information is an important example of a topical problem in information science: that of detecting interesting events and situations in big data sets and presenting those events and situations in interesting ways |
Bjarte Botnevik; Eirik Sakariassen; Vinay Setty Brenda: Browser extension for fake news detection Journal Article Proceedings of the 43rd international acm sigir conference on research and development in information retrieval, pp. 2117–2120, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Fake news detection, Hierarchical attention, Neural networks, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @article{Botnevik2020, title = {Brenda: Browser extension for fake news detection}, author = {Bjarte Botnevik and Eirik Sakariassen and Vinay Setty}, url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.13270.pdf}, doi = {10.1145/3397271.3401396}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-05-27}, journal = {Proceedings of the 43rd international acm sigir conference on research and development in information retrieval}, pages = { 2117–2120}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, abstract = {Misinformation such as fake news has drawn a lot of attention in recent years. It has serious consequences on society, politics and economy. This has lead to a rise of manually fact-checking websites such as Snopes and Politifact. However, the scale of misinformation limits their ability for verification. In this demonstration, we propose BRENDA a browser extension which can be used to automate the entire process of credibility assessments of false claims. Behind the scenes BRENDA uses a tested deep neural network architecture to automatically identify fact check worthy claims and classifies as well as presents the result along with evidence to the user. Since BRENDA is a browser extension, it facilities fast automated fact checking for the end user without having to leave the Webpage.}, keywords = {Fake news detection, Hierarchical attention, Neural networks, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Misinformation such as fake news has drawn a lot of attention in recent years. It has serious consequences on society, politics and economy. This has lead to a rise of manually fact-checking websites such as Snopes and Politifact. However, the scale of misinformation limits their ability for verification. In this demonstration, we propose BRENDA a browser extension which can be used to automate the entire process of credibility assessments of false claims. Behind the scenes BRENDA uses a tested deep neural network architecture to automatically identify fact check worthy claims and classifies as well as presents the result along with evidence to the user. Since BRENDA is a browser extension, it facilities fast automated fact checking for the end user without having to leave the Webpage. |
Helle Sjøvaag; Thomas Owren; Turid Borgen Strategic and Organisational fit in Corporate News Markets: A Principal-agent Approach to Studying Newspaper Mergers Journal Article Journalism Practice, pp. 1-18, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Agency Theory, Editor in chief, Local journalism, Media ownership, Mergers and acqusitions, News markets, News organisations, Newspaper chains, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement | Links: @article{Sjøvaag2020, title = {Strategic and Organisational fit in Corporate News Markets: A Principal-agent Approach to Studying Newspaper Mergers}, author = {Helle Sjøvaag and Thomas Owren and Turid Borgen}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/17512786.2020.1772097?needAccess=true}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2020.1772097}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-05-20}, journal = {Journalism Practice}, pages = {1-18}, abstract = {This article analyses strategic and organisational fit in corporate newspaper mergers in the context of the digitalisation of local newspaper markets. Using the 2019 acquisition of Nordsjø Media by Amedia in Norway as case, we analyse how eight editors-in-chief perceive the process of incorporating small, low-frequency, print-oriented monopolistic newspapers into one of Scandinavia’s largest newspaper chains. The semi-structured interviews were analysed in light of perceived strategic and organisational fit in a principal-agent theoretical framework, the aim of which is to shed light on corporate ownership effects in consolidated newspaper markets. The analysis reveals the precarity of independent ownership in digitising news markets, to which corporatisation emerges as a necessary and welcomed solution. We find the strategic fit as perceived by editors to be tied to technological resources and scale economics, while organisational fit is hampered by the speed and pressure of corporatisation processes. While these results largely support findings from previous acquisition studies in the news industries, the contribution of this analysis lies primarily with the necessity of scale required by the technological transformation that forces independent newspapers to submit to larger chain operations and how it influences considerations of fit in disruptive digital news markets.}, keywords = {Agency Theory, Editor in chief, Local journalism, Media ownership, Mergers and acqusitions, News markets, News organisations, Newspaper chains, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } This article analyses strategic and organisational fit in corporate newspaper mergers in the context of the digitalisation of local newspaper markets. Using the 2019 acquisition of Nordsjø Media by Amedia in Norway as case, we analyse how eight editors-in-chief perceive the process of incorporating small, low-frequency, print-oriented monopolistic newspapers into one of Scandinavia’s largest newspaper chains. The semi-structured interviews were analysed in light of perceived strategic and organisational fit in a principal-agent theoretical framework, the aim of which is to shed light on corporate ownership effects in consolidated newspaper markets. The analysis reveals the precarity of independent ownership in digitising news markets, to which corporatisation emerges as a necessary and welcomed solution. We find the strategic fit as perceived by editors to be tied to technological resources and scale economics, while organisational fit is hampered by the speed and pressure of corporatisation processes. While these results largely support findings from previous acquisition studies in the news industries, the contribution of this analysis lies primarily with the necessity of scale required by the technological transformation that forces independent newspapers to submit to larger chain operations and how it influences considerations of fit in disruptive digital news markets. |
Wafia Adouane; Samia Touileb; Jean-Philippe Bernardy Identifying Sentiments in Algerian Code-switched User-generated Comments Conference 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Algerian Arabic, code-switching, sentiment analysis, under-resourced colloquial languages, user-generated data, WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies | Links: @conference{Adouane2020, title = {Identifying Sentiments in Algerian Code-switched User-generated Comments}, author = {Wafia Adouane and Samia Touileb and Jean-Philippe Bernardy}, url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.328.pdf}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-05-06}, journal = {Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020)}, pages = {2698–2705}, abstract = {We present in this paper our work on Algerian language, an under-resourced North African colloquial Arabic variety, for which we built a comparably large corpus of more than 36,000 code-switched user-generated comments annotated for sentiments. We opted for this data domain because Algerian is a colloquial language with no existing freely available corpora. Moreover, we compiled sentiment lexicons of positive and negative unigrams and bigrams reflecting the code-switches present in the language. We compare the performance of four models on the task of identifying sentiments, and the results indicate that a CNN model trained end-to-end fits better our unedited code-switched and unbalanced data across the predefined sentiment classes. Additionally, injecting the lexicons as background knowledge to the model boosts its performance on the minority class with a gain of 10.54 points on the F-score. The results of our experiments can be used as a baseline for future research for Algerian sentiment analysis. }, keywords = {Algerian Arabic, code-switching, sentiment analysis, under-resourced colloquial languages, user-generated data, WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } We present in this paper our work on Algerian language, an under-resourced North African colloquial Arabic variety, for which we built a comparably large corpus of more than 36,000 code-switched user-generated comments annotated for sentiments. We opted for this data domain because Algerian is a colloquial language with no existing freely available corpora. Moreover, we compiled sentiment lexicons of positive and negative unigrams and bigrams reflecting the code-switches present in the language. We compare the performance of four models on the task of identifying sentiments, and the results indicate that a CNN model trained end-to-end fits better our unedited code-switched and unbalanced data across the predefined sentiment classes. Additionally, injecting the lexicons as background knowledge to the model boosts its performance on the minority class with a gain of 10.54 points on the F-score. The results of our experiments can be used as a baseline for future research for Algerian sentiment analysis. |
Stine Lomborg; Lina Dencik; Hallvard Moe Methods for datafication, datafication of methods: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal Article European Journal of Communication, 35 (3), pp. 203-212, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Datafication, Media and Communication Research, Methods, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences | Links: @article{Lomborg2020, title = {Methods for datafication, datafication of methods: Introduction to the Special Issue.}, author = {Stine Lomborg and Lina Dencik and Hallvard Moe }, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0267323120922045}, doi = {10.1177/0267323120922045 Article information }, year = {2020}, date = {2020-05-05}, journal = {European Journal of Communication}, volume = {35}, number = {3}, pages = {203-212}, abstract = {Digital media enable processes of datafication: users' online activities leave digital traces that are transformed into data points in databases, kept by service providers and other private and public organisations, and repurposed for commercial exploitation, business innovation, surveillance -- and research. Increasingly, this also extends to sensors and recognition technologies that turn homes and cities, as well as our own bodies, into data points to be collected and analysed So-called ‘traditional’ media industries, too, including public service broadcasting, have been datafied, tracking and profiling audiences, algorithmically processing data for greater personalisation as a way to compete with new players and streaming services. Datafication both raises new research questions and brings about new avenues, and an array of tools, for empirical research. This special issue is dedicated to exploring these, linking them to broader historical trajectories of social science methodologies as well as to central concerns and perspectives in media and communication research. As such, this special issue grapples with approaches to empirical research that interlink questions of methods and tools with epistemology and practice. It discusses the datafication of methods, as well as methods for studying datafication. With this we hope to enable reflection of what research questions media and communication scholars should ask of datafication, and how new and existing methods enable us to answer them.}, keywords = {Datafication, Media and Communication Research, Methods, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Digital media enable processes of datafication: users' online activities leave digital traces that are transformed into data points in databases, kept by service providers and other private and public organisations, and repurposed for commercial exploitation, business innovation, surveillance -- and research. Increasingly, this also extends to sensors and recognition technologies that turn homes and cities, as well as our own bodies, into data points to be collected and analysed So-called ‘traditional’ media industries, too, including public service broadcasting, have been datafied, tracking and profiling audiences, algorithmically processing data for greater personalisation as a way to compete with new players and streaming services. Datafication both raises new research questions and brings about new avenues, and an array of tools, for empirical research. This special issue is dedicated to exploring these, linking them to broader historical trajectories of social science methodologies as well as to central concerns and perspectives in media and communication research. As such, this special issue grapples with approaches to empirical research that interlink questions of methods and tools with epistemology and practice. It discusses the datafication of methods, as well as methods for studying datafication. With this we hope to enable reflection of what research questions media and communication scholars should ask of datafication, and how new and existing methods enable us to answer them. |
P Meurer; V Rosén; Koenraad De Smedt Interactive Visualizations in INESS Book Chapter Butt, M; Hautli-Janisz, A; (Eds.), Lyding V (Ed.): 2020. BibTeX | Tags: WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies | Links: @inbook{Meurer2020, title = {Interactive Visualizations in INESS}, author = {P Meurer and V Rosén and Koenraad De Smedt}, editor = {M. Butt and A. Hautli-Janisz and V. Lyding (Eds.)}, url = {https://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublications/site/9781684000333.shtml}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-05-01}, keywords = {WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } |
F Jørgensen; T Aasmoe; ASR Husevåg; Lilja Øvrelid; Erik Velldal (Ed.) NorNE: Annotating Named Entities for Norwegian Proceeding 2020. BibTeX | Tags: WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies | Links: @proceedings{Jørgensen2020, title = {NorNE: Annotating Named Entities for Norwegian}, editor = {F Jørgensen and T Aasmoe and ASR Husevåg and Lilja Øvrelid and Erik Velldal}, url = {https://oda.oslomet.no/handle/10642/8830}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-05-01}, keywords = {WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {proceedings} } |
Lilja Øvrelid; P Mæhlum; J Barnes; Erik Velldal A Fine-Grained Sentiment Dataset for Norwegian Proceeding 2020. BibTeX | Tags: WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies | Links: @proceedings{Øvrelid2020, title = {A Fine-Grained Sentiment Dataset for Norwegian}, author = {Lilja Øvrelid and P Mæhlum and J Barnes and Erik Velldal}, url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.618/}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-05-01}, keywords = {WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {proceedings} } |
Pierre Lison; Aliaksandr Hubin; Jeremy Barnes; Samia Touileb Named Entity Recognition without Labelled Data: A Weak Supervision Approach Journal Article Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 1518–1533, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies | Links: @article{Lison2020, title = {Named Entity Recognition without Labelled Data: A Weak Supervision Approach}, author = {Pierre Lison and Aliaksandr Hubin and Jeremy Barnes and Samia Touileb}, url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.14723.pdf}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-04-30}, journal = {Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics}, pages = {1518–1533}, abstract = {Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance often degrades rapidly when applied to target domains that differ from the texts observed during training. When in-domain labelled data is available, transfer learning techniques can be used to adapt existing NER models to the target domain. But what should one do when there is no hand-labelled data for the target domain? This paper presents a simple but powerful approach to learn NER models in the absence of labelled data through weak supervision. The approach relies on a broad spectrum of labelling functions to automatically annotate texts from the target domain. These annotations are then merged together using a hidden Markov model which captures the varying accuracies and confusions of the labelling functions. A sequence labelling model can finally be trained on the basis of this unified annotation. We evaluate the approach on two English datasets (CoNLL 2003 and news articles from Reuters and Bloomberg) and demonstrate an improvement of about 7 percentage points in entity-level F1 scores compared to an out-of-domain neural NER model.}, keywords = {WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Named Entity Recognition (NER) performance often degrades rapidly when applied to target domains that differ from the texts observed during training. When in-domain labelled data is available, transfer learning techniques can be used to adapt existing NER models to the target domain. But what should one do when there is no hand-labelled data for the target domain? This paper presents a simple but powerful approach to learn NER models in the absence of labelled data through weak supervision. The approach relies on a broad spectrum of labelling functions to automatically annotate texts from the target domain. These annotations are then merged together using a hidden Markov model which captures the varying accuracies and confusions of the labelling functions. A sequence labelling model can finally be trained on the basis of this unified annotation. We evaluate the approach on two English datasets (CoNLL 2003 and news articles from Reuters and Bloomberg) and demonstrate an improvement of about 7 percentage points in entity-level F1 scores compared to an out-of-domain neural NER model. |
Cathrine Holst; Hallvard Moe Deliberative systems theory and citizens’ use of online media: testing a critical theory of democracy on a high achiever. Journal Article Political Studies, pp. 1-18, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Deliberative Democracy, Experts, Non-ideal theory, Online Media, Public Sphere, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences | Links: @article{Holst2020, title = {Deliberative systems theory and citizens’ use of online media: testing a critical theory of democracy on a high achiever.}, author = {Cathrine Holst and Hallvard Moe }, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0032321719890809}, doi = {10.1177/0032321719890809 Article information }, year = {2020}, date = {2020-04-06}, journal = {Political Studies}, pages = {1-18}, abstract = {Deliberative systems theory is a promising candidate for a normative theory of democracy that combines ideal requirements with feasibility. Yet, recent theoretical elaborations and studies of citizens’ online media use inspired by the theory suffer from an incomplete account of the public sphere’s epistemic function, too rough interpretations of participatory levels, shortcomings in the understanding of online media, and a context-insensitive notion of policy reform. Addressing these weaknesses, the article argues for a refined version of deliberative systems theory. Particular attention is given to feasibility considerations. Reviewing studies of online democracy in Norway, the article shows that the theoretical critique has practical significance. It is also argued that the amended version of the deliberative systems approach produces a diagnosis of Norwegian online democracy more in line with reasonable expectations to a high achiever. This is taken as a prima facie indicator of feasibility.}, keywords = {Deliberative Democracy, Experts, Non-ideal theory, Online Media, Public Sphere, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Deliberative systems theory is a promising candidate for a normative theory of democracy that combines ideal requirements with feasibility. Yet, recent theoretical elaborations and studies of citizens’ online media use inspired by the theory suffer from an incomplete account of the public sphere’s epistemic function, too rough interpretations of participatory levels, shortcomings in the understanding of online media, and a context-insensitive notion of policy reform. Addressing these weaknesses, the article argues for a refined version of deliberative systems theory. Particular attention is given to feasibility considerations. Reviewing studies of online democracy in Norway, the article shows that the theoretical critique has practical significance. It is also argued that the amended version of the deliberative systems approach produces a diagnosis of Norwegian online democracy more in line with reasonable expectations to a high achiever. This is taken as a prima facie indicator of feasibility. |
Anja Salzmann; Frode Guribye; Astrid Gynnild “We in the Mojo Community” – Exploring a Global Network of Mobile Journalists Journal Article Journalism Practice, pp. 1-18, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: community of practice, digital culture, mobile content creation, Mobile journalism, mobile technologies, mojo, mojo community, smartphone reporting, WP4: Media Content Interaction and Accessibility | Links: @article{Salzmann2020, title = {“We in the Mojo Community” – Exploring a Global Network of Mobile Journalists}, author = {Anja Salzmann and Frode Guribye and Astrid Gynnild}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epub/10.1080/17512786.2020.1742772?needAccess=true}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2020.1742772}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-04-03}, journal = {Journalism Practice}, pages = {1-18}, abstract = {Mobile journalism is a fast-growing area of journalistic innovation that requires new skills and work practices. Thus, a major challenge for journalists is learning not only how to keep up with new gadgets but how to advance and develop a mojo mindset to pursue their interests and solidify future work options. This paper investigates a globally pioneering network of mojo journalism, the Mojo Community, that consists of journalists and practitioners dedicated to creating multimedia content using mobile technologies. The study is based on empirical data from interviews with and the observation of the participants of the community over a two-year period. The analysis draws on Wenger’s concept of “communities of practice” to explore the domain, structure, and role of this communal formation for innovation and change in journalistic practices. The community’s core group is comprised of journalists mainly affiliated with legacy broadcast organizations and with a particular interest in and extensive knowledge of mobile technologies. The participants perceive their engagement with the community as a way of meeting the challenges of organizational reluctance to change, fast-evolving technological advancements, and uncertain job prospects.}, keywords = {community of practice, digital culture, mobile content creation, Mobile journalism, mobile technologies, mojo, mojo community, smartphone reporting, WP4: Media Content Interaction and Accessibility}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Mobile journalism is a fast-growing area of journalistic innovation that requires new skills and work practices. Thus, a major challenge for journalists is learning not only how to keep up with new gadgets but how to advance and develop a mojo mindset to pursue their interests and solidify future work options. This paper investigates a globally pioneering network of mojo journalism, the Mojo Community, that consists of journalists and practitioners dedicated to creating multimedia content using mobile technologies. The study is based on empirical data from interviews with and the observation of the participants of the community over a two-year period. The analysis draws on Wenger’s concept of “communities of practice” to explore the domain, structure, and role of this communal formation for innovation and change in journalistic practices. The community’s core group is comprised of journalists mainly affiliated with legacy broadcast organizations and with a particular interest in and extensive knowledge of mobile technologies. The participants perceive their engagement with the community as a way of meeting the challenges of organizational reluctance to change, fast-evolving technological advancements, and uncertain job prospects. |
Koenraad de Smedt; D Koureas; P Wittenberg FAIR Digital Objects for Science: From Data Pieces to Actionable Knowledge Units Journal Article 2020. BibTeX | Tags: WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies | Links: @article{deSmedt2020, title = {FAIR Digital Objects for Science: From Data Pieces to Actionable Knowledge Units}, author = {Koenraad de Smedt and D Koureas and P Wittenberg}, url = {https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jpubli/v8y2020i2p21-d344422.html}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-04-01}, keywords = {WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } |
Morten Fjeld; Smitha Sheshadri; Shendong Zhao; Yang Cheng Learn with Haptics: Improving Vocabulary Recall with Free-form Digital Annotation on Touchscreen Mobiles Journal Article CHI 2020 Paper, pp. 1-13, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Haptics for Learning, Intersensory reinforced learning, Mobile Vocabulary Learning, Motoric Engagement, Multimodal Learning, WP4: Media Content Interaction and Accessibility | Links: @article{Fjeld2020, title = {Learn with Haptics: Improving Vocabulary Recall with Free-form Digital Annotation on Touchscreen Mobiles}, author = {Morten Fjeld and Smitha Sheshadri and Shendong Zhao and Yang Cheng}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3313831.3376272 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_T0fK5gCQ&ab_channel=ACMSIGCHI}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-04-01}, journal = {CHI 2020 Paper}, pages = {1-13}, abstract = {Mobile vocabulary learning interfaces typically present material only in auditory and visual channels, underutilizing the haptic modality. We explored haptic-integrated learning by adding free-form digital annotation to mobile vocabulary learning interfaces. Through a series of pilot studies, we identified three design factors: annotation mode, presentation sequence, and vibrotactile feedback, that influence recall in haptic-integrated vocabulary interfaces. These factors were then evaluated in a within-subject comparative study using a digital flashcard interface as baseline. Results using a 84-item vocabulary showed that the 'whole word' annotation mode is highly effective, yielding a 24.21% increase in immediate recall scores and a 30.36% increase in the 7-day delayed scores. Effects of presentation sequence and vibrotactile feedback were more transient; they affected the results of immediate tests, but not the delayed tests. We discuss the implications of these factors for designing future mobile learning applications.}, keywords = {Haptics for Learning, Intersensory reinforced learning, Mobile Vocabulary Learning, Motoric Engagement, Multimodal Learning, WP4: Media Content Interaction and Accessibility}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Mobile vocabulary learning interfaces typically present material only in auditory and visual channels, underutilizing the haptic modality. We explored haptic-integrated learning by adding free-form digital annotation to mobile vocabulary learning interfaces. Through a series of pilot studies, we identified three design factors: annotation mode, presentation sequence, and vibrotactile feedback, that influence recall in haptic-integrated vocabulary interfaces. These factors were then evaluated in a within-subject comparative study using a digital flashcard interface as baseline. Results using a 84-item vocabulary showed that the 'whole word' annotation mode is highly effective, yielding a 24.21% increase in immediate recall scores and a 30.36% increase in the 7-day delayed scores. Effects of presentation sequence and vibrotactile feedback were more transient; they affected the results of immediate tests, but not the delayed tests. We discuss the implications of these factors for designing future mobile learning applications. |
Agnese Chiatti; Enrico Motta; Enrico Daga Towards a Framework for Visual Intelligence in Service Robotics: Epistemic Requirements and Gap Analysis Journal Article Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2020), pp. 905–916, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @article{Chiatti2020, title = {Towards a Framework for Visual Intelligence in Service Robotics: Epistemic Requirements and Gap Analysis}, author = {Agnese Chiatti and Enrico Motta and Enrico Daga}, url = {https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2003/2003.06171.pdf}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-03-13}, journal = {Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2020)}, pages = {905–916}, abstract = {A key capability required by service robots operating in real-world, dynamic environments is that of Visual Intelligence, i.e., the ability to use their vision system, reasoning components and background knowledge to make sense of their environment. In this paper, we analyze the epistemic requirements for Visual Intelligence, both in a top-down fashion, using existing frameworks for human-like Visual Intelligence in the literature, and from the bottom up, based on the errors emerging from object recognition trials in a real-world robotic scenario. Finally, we use these requirements to evaluate current knowledge bases for Service Robotics and to identify gaps in the support they provide for Visual Intelligence. These gaps provide the basis of a research agenda for developing more effective knowledge representations for Visual Intelligence.}, keywords = {WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } A key capability required by service robots operating in real-world, dynamic environments is that of Visual Intelligence, i.e., the ability to use their vision system, reasoning components and background knowledge to make sense of their environment. In this paper, we analyze the epistemic requirements for Visual Intelligence, both in a top-down fashion, using existing frameworks for human-like Visual Intelligence in the literature, and from the bottom up, based on the errors emerging from object recognition trials in a real-world robotic scenario. Finally, we use these requirements to evaluate current knowledge bases for Service Robotics and to identify gaps in the support they provide for Visual Intelligence. These gaps provide the basis of a research agenda for developing more effective knowledge representations for Visual Intelligence. |
Tareq Al-Moslmi; Marc Gallofré Ocaña; Andreas Lothe Opdahl; Csaba Veres Named entity extraction for knowledge graphs: A literature overview Journal Article IEEE Access, 8 , pp. 32862-32881, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Knowledge graphs, Named-entity disambiguation, Named-entity extraction, Named-entity linking, Named-entity recognition, Natural-language processing, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @article{Al-Moslmi2020, title = {Named entity extraction for knowledge graphs: A literature overview}, author = {Tareq Al-Moslmi and Marc Gallofré Ocaña and Andreas Lothe Opdahl and Csaba Veres }, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8999622}, doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2973928}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-02-14}, journal = {IEEE Access}, volume = {8}, pages = {32862-32881}, abstract = {An enormous amount of digital information is expressed as natural-language (NL) text that is not easily processable by computers. Knowledge Graphs (KG) offer a widely used format for representing information in computer-processable form. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is therefore needed for mining (or lifting) knowledge graphs from NL texts. A central part of the problem is to extract the named entities in the text. The paper presents an overview of recent advances in this area, covering: Named Entity Recognition (NER), Named Entity Disambiguation (NED), and Named Entity Linking (NEL). We comment that many approaches to NED and NEL are based on older approaches to NER and need to leverage the outputs of state-of-the-art NER systems. There is also a need for standard methods to evaluate and compare named-entity extraction approaches. We observe that NEL has recently moved from being stepwise and isolated into an integrated process along two dimensions: the first is that previously sequential steps are now being integrated into end-to-end processes, and the second is that entities that were previously analysed in isolation are now being lifted in each other's context. The current culmination of these trends are the deep-learning approaches that have recently reported promising results.}, keywords = {Knowledge graphs, Named-entity disambiguation, Named-entity extraction, Named-entity linking, Named-entity recognition, Natural-language processing, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } An enormous amount of digital information is expressed as natural-language (NL) text that is not easily processable by computers. Knowledge Graphs (KG) offer a widely used format for representing information in computer-processable form. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is therefore needed for mining (or lifting) knowledge graphs from NL texts. A central part of the problem is to extract the named entities in the text. The paper presents an overview of recent advances in this area, covering: Named Entity Recognition (NER), Named Entity Disambiguation (NED), and Named Entity Linking (NEL). We comment that many approaches to NED and NEL are based on older approaches to NER and need to leverage the outputs of state-of-the-art NER systems. There is also a need for standard methods to evaluate and compare named-entity extraction approaches. We observe that NEL has recently moved from being stepwise and isolated into an integrated process along two dimensions: the first is that previously sequential steps are now being integrated into end-to-end processes, and the second is that entities that were previously analysed in isolation are now being lifted in each other's context. The current culmination of these trends are the deep-learning approaches that have recently reported promising results. |
Shuo Zhang; Krisztian Balog Web Table Extraction, Retrieval, and Augmentation: A Survey Journal Article ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 11 (2), pp. 1-35, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Table augmentation, Table extraction, Table interpretation, Table mining, Table retrieval, Table search, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement | Links: @article{Zhang2020, title = {Web Table Extraction, Retrieval, and Augmentation: A Survey}, author = {Shuo Zhang and Krisztian Balog}, url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.00207.pdf}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-02-01}, journal = {ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)}, volume = {11}, number = {2}, pages = {1-35}, abstract = {Tables are a powerful and popular tool for organizing and manipulating data. A vast number of tables can be found on the Web, which represents a valuable knowledge resource. The objective of this survey is to synthesize and present two decades of research on web tables. In particular, we organize existing literature into six main categories of information access tasks: table extraction, table interpretation, table search, question answering, knowledge base augmentation, and table augmentation. For each of these tasks, we identify and describe seminal approaches, present relevant resources, and point out interdependencies among the different tasks.}, keywords = {Table augmentation, Table extraction, Table interpretation, Table mining, Table retrieval, Table search, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Tables are a powerful and popular tool for organizing and manipulating data. A vast number of tables can be found on the Web, which represents a valuable knowledge resource. The objective of this survey is to synthesize and present two decades of research on web tables. In particular, we organize existing literature into six main categories of information access tasks: table extraction, table interpretation, table search, question answering, knowledge base augmentation, and table augmentation. For each of these tasks, we identify and describe seminal approaches, present relevant resources, and point out interdependencies among the different tasks. |
G. Boato; Duc-Tien Dang Nguyen; F.G.B. De Natale Morphological filter detector for image forensics applications Journal Article IEEE Access, 8 , pp. 13549-13560, 2020. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @article{Boato2020, title = {Morphological filter detector for image forensics applications}, author = {G. Boato and Duc-Tien Dang Nguyen and F.G.B. De Natale}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338524511_Morphological_Filter_Detector_for_Image_Forensics_Applications}, doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2965745}, year = {2020}, date = {2020-01-01}, journal = {IEEE Access}, volume = {8}, pages = {13549-13560}, abstract = {Mathematical morphology provides a large set of powerful non-linear image operators, widely used for feature extraction, noise removal or image enhancement. Although morphological filters might be used to remove artifacts produced by image manipulations, both on binary and graylevel documents, little effort has been spent towards their forensic identification. In this paper we propose a non-trivial extension of a deterministic approach originally detecting erosion and dilation of binary images. The proposed approach operates on grayscale images and is robust to image compression and other typical attacks. When the image is attacked the method looses its deterministic nature and uses a properly trained SVM classifier, using the original detector as a feature extractor. Extensive tests demonstrate that the proposed method guarantees very high accuracy in filtering detection, providing 100% accuracy in discriminating the presence and the type of morphological filter in raw images of three different datasets. The achieved accuracy is also good after JPEG compression, equal or above 76.8% on all datasets for quality factors above 80. The proposed approach is also able to determine the adopted structuring element for moderate compression factors. Finally, it is robust against noise addition and it can distinguish morphological filter from other filters.}, keywords = {WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Mathematical morphology provides a large set of powerful non-linear image operators, widely used for feature extraction, noise removal or image enhancement. Although morphological filters might be used to remove artifacts produced by image manipulations, both on binary and graylevel documents, little effort has been spent towards their forensic identification. In this paper we propose a non-trivial extension of a deterministic approach originally detecting erosion and dilation of binary images. The proposed approach operates on grayscale images and is robust to image compression and other typical attacks. When the image is attacked the method looses its deterministic nature and uses a properly trained SVM classifier, using the original detector as a feature extractor. Extensive tests demonstrate that the proposed method guarantees very high accuracy in filtering detection, providing 100% accuracy in discriminating the presence and the type of morphological filter in raw images of three different datasets. The achieved accuracy is also good after JPEG compression, equal or above 76.8% on all datasets for quality factors above 80. The proposed approach is also able to determine the adopted structuring element for moderate compression factors. Finally, it is robust against noise addition and it can distinguish morphological filter from other filters. |
2019 |
Hallvard Moe Distributed Readiness Citizenship: A Realistic, Normative Concept for Citizens’ Public Connection. Journal Article Communication Theory, 2019, ISSN: 1050–3293. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Citizenship, Deliberative, Democracy, Democratic Realism, Normative Theory, Public Sphere, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences | Links: @article{Moe2019, title = {Distributed Readiness Citizenship: A Realistic, Normative Concept for Citizens’ Public Connection.}, author = {Hallvard Moe}, url = {https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/bitstream/handle/1956/23098/qtz016.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y}, doi = {10.1093/ct/qtz016}, issn = {1050–3293}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-12-09}, journal = {Communication Theory}, abstract = {This article argues that our view of citizens as miserably failing to maintain their role in democracy is problematic, and that the problems stem from the “informed citizen” ideal: it is too demanding, but also misses the target. The article proposes an alternative normative concept for citizens’ public connection: distributed readiness citizenship. The concept highlights how the state of being prepared to act is more important than levels of measurable political knowledge. Readiness is crucial to finding enough information and relevant cues, and it cannot be assessed based on individual citizens in isolation, but should be considered as distributed, and embodied in citizens’ social networks, with a division of labor. With such a conceptualization, we are better equipped to evaluate existing conditions, judge the impact of populism and propaganda, and figure out how to improve the chances for those less well-off to participate in democracy.}, keywords = {Citizenship, Deliberative, Democracy, Democratic Realism, Normative Theory, Public Sphere, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } This article argues that our view of citizens as miserably failing to maintain their role in democracy is problematic, and that the problems stem from the “informed citizen” ideal: it is too demanding, but also misses the target. The article proposes an alternative normative concept for citizens’ public connection: distributed readiness citizenship. The concept highlights how the state of being prepared to act is more important than levels of measurable political knowledge. Readiness is crucial to finding enough information and relevant cues, and it cannot be assessed based on individual citizens in isolation, but should be considered as distributed, and embodied in citizens’ social networks, with a division of labor. With such a conceptualization, we are better equipped to evaluate existing conditions, judge the impact of populism and propaganda, and figure out how to improve the chances for those less well-off to participate in democracy. |
Bjørnar Tessem Analogical News Angles from Text Similarity Conference Artificial Intelligence XXXVI, (11927), Springer International Publishing, 2019. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Analogical reasoning, Computational creativity, Document similarity, Journalism, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @conference{Tessem2019b, title = {Analogical News Angles from Text Similarity}, author = {Bjørnar Tessem}, editor = {Max Bramer and Miltos Petridis}, url = {https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/bitstream/handle/1956/22473/SGAI_2019.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34885-4_35}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-11-19}, booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence XXXVI}, number = {11927}, pages = {449–455}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, abstract = {The paper presents an algorithm providing creativity support to journalists. It suggests analogical transfer of news angles from reports written about different events than the one the journalist is working on. The problem is formulated as a matching problem, where news reports with similar wordings from two events are matched, and unmatched reports from previous cases are selected as candidates for a news angle transfer. The approach is based on document similarity measures for matching and selection of transferable candidates. The algorithm has been tested on a small data set and show that the concept may be viable, but needs more exploration and evaluation in journalistic practice.}, keywords = {Analogical reasoning, Computational creativity, Document similarity, Journalism, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } The paper presents an algorithm providing creativity support to journalists. It suggests analogical transfer of news angles from reports written about different events than the one the journalist is working on. The problem is formulated as a matching problem, where news reports with similar wordings from two events are matched, and unmatched reports from previous cases are selected as candidates for a news angle transfer. The approach is based on document similarity measures for matching and selection of transferable candidates. The algorithm has been tested on a small data set and show that the concept may be viable, but needs more exploration and evaluation in journalistic practice. |
Jeremy Barnes; Samia Touileb; Lilja Øvrelid; Erik Velldal Lexicon information in neural sentiment analysis: a multi-task learning approach Conference Linköping University Electronic Press, 2019. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies | Links: @conference{Barnes2019, title = {Lexicon information in neural sentiment analysis: a multi-task learning approach}, author = {Jeremy Barnes and Samia Touileb and Lilja Øvrelid and Erik Velldal}, url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-6119.pdf}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-10-01}, journal = {Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)}, pages = {175–186}, publisher = {Linköping University Electronic Press}, abstract = {This paper explores the use of multi-task learning (MTL) for incorporating external knowledge in neural models. Specifically, we show how MTL can enable a BiLSTM sentiment classifier to incorporate information from sentiment lexicons. Our MTL set-up is shown to improve model performance (compared to a single-task set-up) on both English and Norwegian sentence-level sentiment datasets. The paper also introduces a new sentiment lexicon for Norwegian.}, keywords = {WP5: Norwegian Language Technologies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } This paper explores the use of multi-task learning (MTL) for incorporating external knowledge in neural models. Specifically, we show how MTL can enable a BiLSTM sentiment classifier to incorporate information from sentiment lexicons. Our MTL set-up is shown to improve model performance (compared to a single-task set-up) on both English and Norwegian sentence-level sentiment datasets. The paper also introduces a new sentiment lexicon for Norwegian. |
Christoph Trattner; Dietmar Jannach Learning to Recommend Similar Items from Human Judgements Journal Article User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Journal, pp. 1-50, 2019. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Content-basedrecommender systems, Similar item recommendations, Similarity measures, User studies | Links: @article{Trattner2020, title = {Learning to Recommend Similar Items from Human Judgements}, author = {Christoph Trattner and Dietmar Jannach}, url = {https://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/UMUAI2019.pdf}, doi = {10.1007/s11257-019-09245-4}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-09-20}, journal = {User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction Journal}, pages = {1-50}, abstract = {Similar item recommendations—a common feature of many Web sites—point users to other interesting objects given a currently inspected item. A common way of computing such recommendations is to use a similarity function, which expresses how much alike two given objects are. Such similarity functions are usually designed based on the specifics of the given application domain. In this work, we explore how such functions can be learned from human judgments of similarities between objects, using two domains of “quality and taste”—cooking recipe and movie recommendation—as guiding scenarios. In our approach, we first collect a few thousand pairwise similarity assessments with the help of crowdworkers. Using these data, we then train different machine learning models that can be used as similarity functions to compare objects. Offline analyses reveal for both application domains that models that combine different types of item characteristics are the best predictors for human-perceived similarity. To further validate the usefulness of the learned models, we conducted additional user studies. In these studies, we exposed participants to similar item recommendations using a set of models that were trained with different feature subsets. The results showed that the combined models that exhibited the best offline prediction performance led to the highest user-perceived similarity, but also to recommendations that were considered useful by the participants, thus confirming the feasibility of our approach.}, keywords = {Content-basedrecommender systems, Similar item recommendations, Similarity measures, User studies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Similar item recommendations—a common feature of many Web sites—point users to other interesting objects given a currently inspected item. A common way of computing such recommendations is to use a similarity function, which expresses how much alike two given objects are. Such similarity functions are usually designed based on the specifics of the given application domain. In this work, we explore how such functions can be learned from human judgments of similarities between objects, using two domains of “quality and taste”—cooking recipe and movie recommendation—as guiding scenarios. In our approach, we first collect a few thousand pairwise similarity assessments with the help of crowdworkers. Using these data, we then train different machine learning models that can be used as similarity functions to compare objects. Offline analyses reveal for both application domains that models that combine different types of item characteristics are the best predictors for human-perceived similarity. To further validate the usefulness of the learned models, we conducted additional user studies. In these studies, we exposed participants to similar item recommendations using a set of models that were trained with different feature subsets. The results showed that the combined models that exhibited the best offline prediction performance led to the highest user-perceived similarity, but also to recommendations that were considered useful by the participants, thus confirming the feasibility of our approach. |
Rahul Mishra; Vinay Setty Hierarchical attention networks to learn latent aspect embeddings for fake news detection Conference Proceedings of the 2019 acm sigir international conference on theory of information retrieval, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, 2019. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Fake news, Hierarchical attention, Latent aspect embeddings, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @conference{Mishra2019, title = {Hierarchical attention networks to learn latent aspect embeddings for fake news detection}, author = {Rahul Mishra and Vinay Setty}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3341981.3344229}, doi = {10.1145/3341981.3344229}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-09-01}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 acm sigir international conference on theory of information retrieval}, pages = {197–204}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Recently false claims and misinformation have become rampant in the web, affecting election outcomes, societies and economies. Consequently, fact checking websites such as snopes.com and politifact.com are becoming popular. However, these websites require expert analysis which is slow and not scalable. Many recent works try to solve these challenges using machine learning models trained on a variety of features and a rich lexicon or more recently, deep neural networks to avoid feature engineering. In this paper, we propose hierarchical deep attention networks to learn embeddings for various latent aspects of news. Contrary to existing solutions which only apply word-level self-attention, our model jointly learns the latent aspect embeddings for classifying false claims by applying hierarchical attention. Using several manually annotated high quality datasets such as Politifact, Snopes and Fever we show that these learned aspect embeddings are strong predictors of false claims. We show that latent aspect embeddings learned from attention mechanisms improve the accuracy of false claim detection by up to 13.5% in terms of Macro F1 compared to a state-of-the-art attention mechanism guided by claim-text DeClarE. We also extract and visualize the evidence from the external articles which supports or disproves the claims}, keywords = {Fake news, Hierarchical attention, Latent aspect embeddings, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } Recently false claims and misinformation have become rampant in the web, affecting election outcomes, societies and economies. Consequently, fact checking websites such as snopes.com and politifact.com are becoming popular. However, these websites require expert analysis which is slow and not scalable. Many recent works try to solve these challenges using machine learning models trained on a variety of features and a rich lexicon or more recently, deep neural networks to avoid feature engineering. In this paper, we propose hierarchical deep attention networks to learn embeddings for various latent aspects of news. Contrary to existing solutions which only apply word-level self-attention, our model jointly learns the latent aspect embeddings for classifying false claims by applying hierarchical attention. Using several manually annotated high quality datasets such as Politifact, Snopes and Fever we show that these learned aspect embeddings are strong predictors of false claims. We show that latent aspect embeddings learned from attention mechanisms improve the accuracy of false claim detection by up to 13.5% in terms of Macro F1 compared to a state-of-the-art attention mechanism guided by claim-text DeClarE. We also extract and visualize the evidence from the external articles which supports or disproves the claims |
Enrico Daga; Enrico Motta Capturing themed evidence, a hybrid approach Conference roceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2019. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: DBpedia, Hybrid method, Information extraction, Themed evidence, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @conference{Daga2019, title = {Capturing themed evidence, a hybrid approach}, author = {Enrico Daga and Enrico Motta}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3360901.3364415}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-09-01}, booktitle = {roceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture}, pages = {93-100}, abstract = {The task of identifying pieces of evidence in texts is of fundamental importance in supporting qualitative studies in various domains, especially in the humanities. In this paper, we coin the expression themed evidence, to refer to (direct or indirect) traces of a fact or situation relevant to a theme of interest and study the problem of identifying them in texts. We devise a generic framework aimed at capturing themed evidence in texts based on a hybrid approach, combining statistical natural language processing, background knowledge, and Semantic Web technologies. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated on a case study of a digital humanities database aimed at collecting and curating a repository of evidence of experiences of listening to music. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our hybrid approach outperforms alternative solutions. We also evidence its generality by testing it on a different use case in the digital humanities.}, keywords = {DBpedia, Hybrid method, Information extraction, Themed evidence, WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } The task of identifying pieces of evidence in texts is of fundamental importance in supporting qualitative studies in various domains, especially in the humanities. In this paper, we coin the expression themed evidence, to refer to (direct or indirect) traces of a fact or situation relevant to a theme of interest and study the problem of identifying them in texts. We devise a generic framework aimed at capturing themed evidence in texts based on a hybrid approach, combining statistical natural language processing, background knowledge, and Semantic Web technologies. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated on a case study of a digital humanities database aimed at collecting and curating a repository of evidence of experiences of listening to music. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our hybrid approach outperforms alternative solutions. We also evidence its generality by testing it on a different use case in the digital humanities. |
Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema; Paolo Cremonesi; Dietmar Jannach Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches Conference Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019), Copenhagen, 2019. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Collaborative filtering, General and referance, Information Systems, Recommender systems, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement | Links: @conference{Dacrema2019, title = {Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches}, author = {Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema and Paolo Cremonesi and Dietmar Jannach}, url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.06902.pdf}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-08-16}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019)}, address = {Copenhagen}, abstract = {Deep learning techniques have become the method of choice for researchers working on algorithmic aspects of recommender systems. With the strongly increased interest in machine learning in general, it has, as a result, become difficult to keep track of what represents the state-of-the-art at the moment, e.g., for top-n recommendation tasks. At the same time, several recent publications point out problems in today’s research practice in applied machine learning, e.g., in terms of the reproducibility of the results or the choice of the baselines when proposing new models. In this work, we report the results of a systematic analysis of algorithmic proposals for top-n recommendation tasks. Specifically, we considered 18 algorithms that were presented at top-level research conferences in the last years. Only 7 of them could be reproduced with reasonable effort. For these methods, it however turned out that 6 of them can often be outperformed with comparably simple heuristic methods, e.g., based on nearest-neighbor or graph-based techniques. The remaining one clearly outperformed the baselines but did not consistently outperform a well-tuned nonneural linear ranking method. Overall, our work sheds light on a number of potential problems in today’s machine learning scholarship and calls for improved scientific practices in this area.}, keywords = {Collaborative filtering, General and referance, Information Systems, Recommender systems, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } Deep learning techniques have become the method of choice for researchers working on algorithmic aspects of recommender systems. With the strongly increased interest in machine learning in general, it has, as a result, become difficult to keep track of what represents the state-of-the-art at the moment, e.g., for top-n recommendation tasks. At the same time, several recent publications point out problems in today’s research practice in applied machine learning, e.g., in terms of the reproducibility of the results or the choice of the baselines when proposing new models. In this work, we report the results of a systematic analysis of algorithmic proposals for top-n recommendation tasks. Specifically, we considered 18 algorithms that were presented at top-level research conferences in the last years. Only 7 of them could be reproduced with reasonable effort. For these methods, it however turned out that 6 of them can often be outperformed with comparably simple heuristic methods, e.g., based on nearest-neighbor or graph-based techniques. The remaining one clearly outperformed the baselines but did not consistently outperform a well-tuned nonneural linear ranking method. Overall, our work sheds light on a number of potential problems in today’s machine learning scholarship and calls for improved scientific practices in this area. |
Ronald de Haan; Marija Slavkovik Answer set programming for judgment aggregation Conference Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2019. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement | Links: @conference{deHaan2019, title = {Answer set programming for judgment aggregation}, author = {Ronald de Haan and Marija Slavkovik}, url = {https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/2019/0231.pdf}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-08-10}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, pages = {1668-1674}, publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence}, abstract = {Judgment aggregation (JA) studies how to aggregate truth valuations on logically related issues. Computing the outcome of aggregation procedures is notoriously computationally hard, which is the likely reason that no implementation of them exists as of yet. However, even hard problems sometimes need to be solved. The worst-case computational complexity of answer set programming (ASP) matches that of most problems in judgment aggregation. We take advantage of this and propose a natural and modular encoding of various judgment aggregation procedures and related problems in JA into ASP. With these encodings, we achieve two results: (1) paving the way towards constructing a wide range of new benchmark instances (from JA) for answer set solving algorithms; and (2) providing an automated tool for researchers in the area of judgment aggregation.}, keywords = {WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } Judgment aggregation (JA) studies how to aggregate truth valuations on logically related issues. Computing the outcome of aggregation procedures is notoriously computationally hard, which is the likely reason that no implementation of them exists as of yet. However, even hard problems sometimes need to be solved. The worst-case computational complexity of answer set programming (ASP) matches that of most problems in judgment aggregation. We take advantage of this and propose a natural and modular encoding of various judgment aggregation procedures and related problems in JA into ASP. With these encodings, we achieve two results: (1) paving the way towards constructing a wide range of new benchmark instances (from JA) for answer set solving algorithms; and (2) providing an automated tool for researchers in the area of judgment aggregation. |
Krisztian Balog; Filip Radlinski; Shushan Arakelyan Transparent, Scrutable and Explainable User Models for Personalized Recommendation Conference Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’19), 2019. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Explainability, Recommendations, Scrutability, Transparency, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement | Links: @conference{Balog2019, title = {Transparent, Scrutable and Explainable User Models for Personalized Recommendation}, author = {Krisztian Balog and Filip Radlinski and Shushan Arakelyan}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3331184.3331211}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3331184.3331211}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-07-25}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’19)}, pages = {265–274}, abstract = {Most recommender systems base their recommendations on implicit or explicit item-level feedback provided by users. These item ratings are combined into a complex user model, which then predicts the suitability of other items. While effective, such methods have limited scrutability and transparency. For instance, if a user's interests change, then many item ratings would usually need to be modified to significantly shift the user's recommendations. Similarly, explaining how the system characterizes the user is impossible, short of presenting the entire list of known item ratings. In this paper, we present a new set-based recommendation technique that permits the user model to be explicitly presented to users in natural language, empowering users to understand recommendations made and improve the recommendations dynamically. While performing comparably to traditional collaborative filtering techniques in a standard static setting, our approach allows users to efficiently improve recommendations. Further, it makes it easier for the model to be validated and adjusted, building user trust and understanding.}, keywords = {Explainability, Recommendations, Scrutability, Transparency, WP2: User Modeling Personalization and Engagement}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } Most recommender systems base their recommendations on implicit or explicit item-level feedback provided by users. These item ratings are combined into a complex user model, which then predicts the suitability of other items. While effective, such methods have limited scrutability and transparency. For instance, if a user's interests change, then many item ratings would usually need to be modified to significantly shift the user's recommendations. Similarly, explaining how the system characterizes the user is impossible, short of presenting the entire list of known item ratings. In this paper, we present a new set-based recommendation technique that permits the user model to be explicitly presented to users in natural language, empowering users to understand recommendations made and improve the recommendations dynamically. While performing comparably to traditional collaborative filtering techniques in a standard static setting, our approach allows users to efficiently improve recommendations. Further, it makes it easier for the model to be validated and adjusted, building user trust and understanding. |
Irene Costera Meijer Journalism, Audiences and News Experience Book Chapter Wahl-Jorgensen, Karin; Hanitzsch, Thomas (Ed.): Chapter 25, pp. 389-405, Routledge, 2nd, 2019, ISBN: 9781315167497. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Journalism, News, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences | Links: @inbook{Meijer2019, title = {Journalism, Audiences and News Experience}, author = {Irene Costera Meijer }, editor = {Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Thomas Hanitzsch }, url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/journalism-audiences-news-experience-irene-costera-meijer/e/10.4324/9781315167497-25}, doi = {10.4324/9781315167497-25}, isbn = {9781315167497}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-06-01}, pages = {389-405}, publisher = {Routledge}, edition = {2nd}, chapter = {25}, abstract = {This chapter focuses on the main analytical concepts used to study audiences in journalism and how they can be refined and extended by amplifying the field of journalism studies with insights and theories from neighboring disciplines. The use of audience engagement figures has led to concerns about the influence of Google, YouTube, and Facebook on news access and news availability. In terms of history, attention to changing user practices of news and journalism should be added to the discipline’s more common focus on narrating the history of particular news organizations or journalists. News reach, which is measured through newspaper circulation, ratings, and market shares, was primarily the concern of marketing departments. News users can be expected to act ethically by reflecting on the kind of friendship that journalism triggers in them, by the amount of time they choose to spend with these friends, and by taking on the responsibility for their own news participation.}, keywords = {Journalism, News, WP1: Understanding Media Experiences}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inbook} } This chapter focuses on the main analytical concepts used to study audiences in journalism and how they can be refined and extended by amplifying the field of journalism studies with insights and theories from neighboring disciplines. The use of audience engagement figures has led to concerns about the influence of Google, YouTube, and Facebook on news access and news availability. In terms of history, attention to changing user practices of news and journalism should be added to the discipline’s more common focus on narrating the history of particular news organizations or journalists. News reach, which is measured through newspaper circulation, ratings, and market shares, was primarily the concern of marketing departments. News users can be expected to act ethically by reflecting on the kind of friendship that journalism triggers in them, by the amount of time they choose to spend with these friends, and by taking on the responsibility for their own news participation. |
Bjørnar Tessem; Andreas Lothe Opdahl Supporting Journalistic News Angles with Models and Analogies Conference 2019 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 2019. Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis | Links: @conference{Tessem2019, title = {Supporting Journalistic News Angles with Models and Analogies}, author = {Bjørnar Tessem and Andreas Lothe Opdahl}, url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8877058}, doi = {10.1109/RCIS.2019.8877058}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-05-31}, booktitle = { 2019 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)}, pages = {1-7}, abstract = {News angles are approaches to content presentation in journalism, where the journalist chooses which facts of an event to present. The News Angler project investigates how to computationally support the creation and selection of original news angles for a news event based on information from big data sources. At least two creative approaches are possible. One is to maintain a library of well-known news angles represented in a suitable modeling language, matching published reports on a current event to news angles in order to identify possible angles that have not yet been used. A second approach is not to represent news angles explicitly, instead matching the current event with previous events, and transferring angles from past to present reports by similarity and analogy. Both approaches are described and technologies needed to proceed in either direction are discussed.}, keywords = {WP3: Media Content Production and Analysis}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {conference} } News angles are approaches to content presentation in journalism, where the journalist chooses which facts of an event to present. The News Angler project investigates how to computationally support the creation and selection of original news angles for a news event based on information from big data sources. At least two creative approaches are possible. One is to maintain a library of well-known news angles represented in a suitable modeling language, matching published reports on a current event to news angles in order to identify possible angles that have not yet been used. A second approach is not to represent news angles explicitly, instead matching the current event with previous events, and transferring angles from past to present reports by similarity and analogy. Both approaches are described and technologies needed to proceed in either direction are discussed. |