A Search Engine for Police Press Releases to Double-Check the News

Many people have doubts about the factual accuracy of online news, while still trusting the press releases of police departments. To enable an easy corroboration of online news about police-related events, we build a search engine for press releases of police departments. Addressing the German “mark...

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Autores principales: Fröbe, Maik, Schwanke, Nina, Hagen, Matthias, Potthast, Martin
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Publicado: 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7148093/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45442-5_57
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description Many people have doubts about the factual accuracy of online news, while still trusting the press releases of police departments. To enable an easy corroboration of online news about police-related events, we build a search engine for press releases of police departments. Addressing the German “market”, the search engine takes the URL of a German piece of online news as input and retrieves relevant press releases of the German police. Comparing different query-by-document strategies in a TREC-style evaluation on 105 topics, we show that our system is able to accurately identify relevant press releases if there are any.
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spelling pubmed-71480932020-04-13 A Search Engine for Police Press Releases to Double-Check the News Fröbe, Maik Schwanke, Nina Hagen, Matthias Potthast, Martin Advances in Information Retrieval Article Many people have doubts about the factual accuracy of online news, while still trusting the press releases of police departments. To enable an easy corroboration of online news about police-related events, we build a search engine for press releases of police departments. Addressing the German “market”, the search engine takes the URL of a German piece of online news as input and retrieves relevant press releases of the German police. Comparing different query-by-document strategies in a TREC-style evaluation on 105 topics, we show that our system is able to accurately identify relevant press releases if there are any. 2020-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7148093/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45442-5_57 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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