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Learning to Identify Ambiguous and Misleading News Headlines
Accuracy is one of the basic principles of journalism. However, it is
increasingly hard to manage due to the diversity of news media. Some editors of
online news tend to use catchy headlines which trick readers into clicking.
These headlines are either ambiguous or misleading, degrading the reading
experience of the audience. Thus, identifying inaccurate news headlines is a
task worth studying. Previous work names these headlines "clickbaits" and
mainly focus on the features extracted from the headlines, which limits the
performance since the consistency between headlines and news bodies is
underappreciated. In this paper, we clearly redefine the problem and identify
ambiguous and misleading headlines separately. We utilize class sequential
rules to exploit structure information when detecting ambiguous headlines. For
the identification of misleading headlines, we extract features based on the
congruence between headlines and bodies. To make use of the large unlabeled
data set, we apply a co-training method and gain an increase in performance.
The experiment results show the effectiveness of our methods. Then we use our
classifiers to detect inaccurate headlines crawled from different sources and
conduct a data analysis.Comment: Accepted by IJCAI 201
Coupling the reduced-order model and the generative model for an importance sampling estimator
In this work, we develop an importance sampling estimator by coupling the
reduced-order model and the generative model in a problem setting of
uncertainty quantification. The target is to estimate the probability that the
quantity of interest (QoI) in a complex system is beyond a given threshold. To
avoid the prohibitive cost of sampling a large scale system, the reduced-order
model is usually considered for a trade-off between efficiency and accuracy.
However, the Monte Carlo estimator given by the reduced-order model is biased
due to the error from dimension reduction. To correct the bias, we still need
to sample the fine model. An effective technique to reduce the variance
reduction is importance sampling, where we employ the generative model to
estimate the distribution of the data from the reduced-order model and use it
for the change of measure in the importance sampling estimator. To compensate
the approximation errors of the reduced-order model, more data that induce a
slightly smaller QoI than the threshold need to be included into the training
set. Although the amount of these data can be controlled by a posterior error
estimate, redundant data, which may outnumber the effective data, will be kept
due to the epistemic uncertainty. To deal with this issue, we introduce a
weighted empirical distribution to process the data from the reduced-order
model. The generative model is then trained by minimizing the cross entropy
between it and the weighted empirical distribution. We also introduce a penalty
term into the objective function to deal with the overfitting for more
robustness. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of
the proposed methodology
On Fleck quotients
Let be a prime, and let and be integers. In this paper we study
Fleck's quotient
We determine mod completely by certain number-theoretic and
combinatorial methods; consequently, if then
where are Bernoulli numbers. We also establish the
Kummer-type congruence for
, and reveal some connections between Fleck's quotients and class
numbers of the quadratic fields \Q(\sqrt{\pm p}) and the -th cyclotomic
field \Q(\zeta_p). In addition, generalized Fleck quotients are also studied
in this paper.Comment: 28 page
AT-HOME SEAFOOD CONSUMPTION IN KENTUCKY: A DOUBLE-HURDLE MODEL APPROACH
This study investigates demographic and socioeconomic factors contributing to at-home consumption of seafood in Kentucky through a 2010 survey. The Tobit and Craggβs double-hurdle model are analyzed and tested. Numbers of people in the household, household income, race and employment status are significant determinants of at-home seafood consumption in Kentucky.Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Seafood consumption, At-home, Kentucky, Double-Hurdle Model,
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