Papers by Arda Kaz
Spatial Layouts in News Homepages Capture Human Preferences (2025.emnlp-main)
Copied to clipboard
| Challenge: | Homepage layouts are daily and manually curated by expert human news editors, and serve as a proxy for information prioritization. |
| Approach: | They propose a pairwise preference model to capture ranked preferences between news items . they use a dataset of 3,000 news homepages captured twice daily over a five-year period . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model infers editorial preference with over 0.7 F1 score (based on human trials) it also ranks local city council policies passed over ten years in San Francisco, evaluating their "newsworthiness". |