Several on-line daily newspapers offer readers the opportunity to directly comment on
articles. In the Netherlands this feature is used quite often and the quality (grammatically and …

User comments have become an essential part of online journalism. However, newsrooms
are often overwhelmed by the vast number of diverse comments, for which a manual …

Existing approaches to summarizing multi-party argumentative conversations in reader
comment are extractive and fail to capture the argumentative nature of these conversations …

On-line journalistic sites publish several news and stories every day. Readers of these sites
may comment a story, and, as a consequence, a single story might receive thousands of …

Text mining have gained great momentum in recent years, with user-generated content
becoming widely available. One key use is comment mining, with much attention being …

Online news agents provide commenting facilities for their readers to express their opinions
or sentiments with regards to news stories. The number of user supplied comments on a …

Comment sections below online news articles enjoy growing popularity among readers.
However, the overwhelming number of comments makes it infeasible for the average news …

This work investigates summarizing the conversations that occur in the comments section of
the UK newspaper the Guardian. In the comment summarization task comments are …

In this paper we examine the relationships between news comment topicality, temporality,
sentiment, and quality in a dataset of 54,540 news comments. Initial observations indicate …

Newsrooms are still searching for ways to manage user comments because of both a desire
for professional distance from their audiences and a lack of analytical tools. This paper …