NewsFinder

Automating the Collection, Classification, Ranking and Publishing of News Stories for AI in the News

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This page documents the NewsFinder software. If you are looking for recent news published by NewsFinder, visit the AI in the News page.

NewsFinder is an AI program that automates the steps involved in finding, selecting, classifying, summarizing and publishing news stories that meet subjective judgments of relevance and interest to the Artificial Intelligence community.

Each day NewsFinder scans a number of high-quality online news sources and selects stories that it deems relevant to the Artificial Intelligence community. It also includes stories suggested by GoogleNews. For each story it determines the subset of the 19 AITopics major topics for which the story is relevant.

Each Monday morning, NewsFinder ranks the stories selected during the preceding week, removes duplicates and selects a small subset (typically not more than a dozen) that are deemed to be of high interest to the community. The selected stories are published via five channels: (1) the Latest AI in the News summary page, (2) the weekly "AI Alert" e-mail message to subscribers, (3) the RSS feeds associated with the AITopics major topics, (4) the AITopics News Archive, and (5) individual story pages on AITopics.

Articles on NewsFinder

• L. Dong, R. G. Smith and B.G. Buchanan. NewsFinder: Automating an Artificial Intelligence News Service. Twenty-Third IAAI Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI11), July, 2011.
• L. Dong, R. G. Smith and B.G. Buchanan. Automating the Selection of Stories for AI in the News. Twenty-fourth International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2011), June, 2011.

NewsFinder Procedure

• Details on how NewsFinder works.

NewsFinder Vision

The primary goal of NewsFinder is to be a trusted, timely, and educational source of AI-related news that is collected, summarized, and categorized nowhere else.

NewsFinder Mission

The means by which NewsFinder will achieve its goal will be to:

• Provide links to relevant and interesting news stories about Artificial Intelligence that are available from credible online sources.
• Automate the service of finding and summarizing stories to avoid manual labor.
• Learn from readers' feedback how to improve the service.
• Implement the service in a straightforward, well-documented program using available tools to provide a foundation for future improvement.

NewsFinder Strategic value

• Relevant, interesting news delivered to subscribers
• Wider reach than possible with human curators
• Showcase of AI techniques
• Efficiency of future development

NewsFinder Guiding Principles

• Students, teachers, researchers, and journalists want and need to know what's "new" in AI
• Human effort should be minimal because of the size of the task and that AAAI should support effective AI techniques
• About 10 to 12 news stories delivered weekly is most desirable
• Software and processes should be documented

NewsFinder Deliverables

• Software that finds, summarizes, and categorizes relevant and high-quality news
• Interfaces for human input and feedback
• User studies that reflect on NewsFinder's effectiveness and utility
• Documentation that aids future maintainers

NewsFinder Archive

• Click on link for News Archive in the TOC for the AI in the News page
• Click on a date to see the published stories for that week -> http://aaai.org/AITopics/AINewsFinder/2012-02-27-News

• To see all stories considered for that week replace "-News" in the page name with "-AllNews" • For information on how stories were categorized and reasons for not publishing click on the "info" button for a story