NewsIR 2019
Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

Keynotes and Invited Talks

• From Redlining to Robots: How Newsrooms Apply Technology to the Craft of Journalism 1
  Aron Pilhofer
• Mining Leaks and Open Data to Follow the Money 2
  Friedrich Lindenberg

News Bias, Transparency and Credibility

• Biased News Data Influence on Classifying Social Media Posts 3-8
  Marija Stanojevic, Jumanah Alshehri, Eduard Dragut, Zoran Obradovic
• Good , Neutral or Bad - News Classification 9-14
  Aashish Agarwal, Ankita Mandal, Matthias Schaffeld, Fangzheng Ji, Jhiao Zhan, Yiqi Sun, Ahmet Aker
• Credibility and Transparency of News Sources: Data Collection and Feature Analysis 15-20
  Ahmet Aker, Kevin Vincentius, Kalina Bontcheva

Disinformation, News Propaganda, and Controversy

• The Diffusion of Fake News through the "Middle Media" - Contaminated Online Sphere in Japan 21-26
  Hirotaka Kawashima, Hiroyuki Fujishiro
• Tribalism, Political Polarisation and Disinformation 27-29
  Samantha North, Lukasz Piwek, Adam Joinson
• Corpus of News Articles Annotated with Article Level Sentiment 30-35
  Ahmet Aker, Marius Hamacher, Alicia Nti, Anne Smets, Hauke Gravenkamp, Johannes Erdmann, Sabrina Mayer, Julia Serong, Anna Welpinghus, Francesco Marchi
• Real-time Claim Detection from News Articles and Retrieval of Semantically-Similar Factchecks 36-41
  Ben Adler, Giacomo Boscaini-Gilroy
• Squabble: An Efficient, Scalable Controversy Classifier 42-44
  Shiri Dori-Hacohen, Elinor Brondwine, Jeremy Gollehon

News Search

• Ontology Guided Purposive News Retrieval and Presentation 45-50
  Lipika Dey, Rupsa Saha, Tirthankar Dasgupta, Abir Naskar
• Human-centric Evaluation of Similarity Spaces of News Articles 51-56
  Clara Higuera Cabanes, Michel Schammel, Shirley Ka Kei Yu, Ben Fields
• Event Detection using Images of Temporal Word Patterns 57-62
  Yunli Wang, Cyril Goutte
• Affect Enriched Word Embeddings for News Information Retrieval 63-68
  Tommaso Teofili, Niyati Chhaya