Papers by Benjamin Litterer
When it Rains, it Pours: Modeling Media Storms and the News Ecosystem (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Occasionally, an event triggers a media storm, with coverage lasting weeks instead of days. |
| Approach: | They develop a pairwise article similarity model to identify story clusters in news corpora and build a corpus of media storms over a nearly two year period. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model validates theories about storm evolution and topical distribution and supports hypotheses about storm influence on media coverage and intermedia agenda setting. |