%0 Conference Paper %1 citeulike:14054007 %A Shuai, Xin %A Liu, Xiaozhong %A Bollen, Johan %B Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web %C New York, NY, USA %D 2012 %I ACM %K social-search %P 1227--1232 %R 10.1145/2187980.2188265 %T Improving News Ranking by Community Tweets %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2187980.2188265 %X Users frequently express their information needs by means of short and general queries that are difficult for ranking algorithms to interpret correctly. However, users' social contexts can offer important additional information about their information needs which can be leveraged by ranking algorithms to provide augmented, personalized results. Existing methods mostly rely on users' individual behavioral data such as clickstream and log data, but as a result suffer from data sparsity and privacy issues. Here, we propose a Community Tweets Voting Model (CTVM) to re-rank Google and Yahoo news search results on the basis of open, large-scale Twitter community data. Experimental results show that CTVM outperforms baseline rankings from Google and Yahoo for certain online communities. We propose an application scenario of CTVM and provide an agenda for further research. %@ 978-1-4503-1230-1

@inproceedings{citeulike:14054007, abstract = {{Users frequently express their information needs by means of short and general queries that are difficult for ranking algorithms to interpret correctly. However, users' social contexts can offer important additional information about their information needs which can be leveraged by ranking algorithms to provide augmented, personalized results. Existing methods mostly rely on users' individual behavioral data such as clickstream and log data, but as a result suffer from data sparsity and privacy issues. Here, we propose a Community Tweets Voting Model (CTVM) to re-rank Google and Yahoo news search results on the basis of open, large-scale Twitter community data. Experimental results show that CTVM outperforms baseline rankings from Google and Yahoo for certain online communities. We propose an application scenario of CTVM and provide an agenda for further research.}}, added-at = {2017-11-15T17:02:25.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Shuai, Xin and Liu, Xiaozhong and Bollen, Johan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/29fbc782460c347c65e544b324b7bd672/brusilovsky}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web}, citeulike-article-id = {14054007}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2187980.2188265}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2187980.2188265}, doi = {10.1145/2187980.2188265}, interhash = {63f89f9822362f455b3fc12e58037593}, intrahash = {9fbc782460c347c65e544b324b7bd672}, isbn = {978-1-4503-1230-1}, keywords = {social-search}, location = {Lyon, France}, pages = {1227--1232}, posted-at = {2016-05-31 16:49:33}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {WWW '12 Companion}, timestamp = {2017-11-15T17:02:25.000+0100}, title = {{Improving News Ranking by Community Tweets}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2187980.2188265}, year = 2012 }