[Infowarrior] - AI System Sorts News Articles By Whether or Not They Contain Actual Information

[Richard Forno]

AI System Sorts News Articles By Whether or Not They Contain Actual Information
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paq3eb/machine-learning-news-aggregation

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In a recent paper published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, computer scientists Ani Nenkova and Yinfei Yang, of Google and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively, describe a new machine learning approach to classifying written journalism according to a formalized idea of “content density.” With an average accuracy of around 80 percent, their system was able to accurately classify news stories across a wide range of domains, spanning from international relations and business to sports and science journalism, when evaluated against a ground truth dataset of already correctly classified news articles.

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