Presentation 2019-09-27
Improvement of Comment Ranking in Yahoo! News by In-House Competition
Hiroaki Taguchi, Soichiro Fujita, Hayato Kobayashi, Yoshimune Tabuchi, Ken Kobayashi, Kazuma Murao, Chahine Koleejan, Takeshi Masuyama, Taichi Yatsuka, Manabu Okumura,
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Abstract(in English) In this paper, we report on efforts of an in-house competition held for improving models that rank user comments in Yahoo! News in terms of their constructiveness. Specifically, we describe(1) settings of the competition such as task and evaluation, (2) behavior of participants and submitted models, (3) performance comparison of the submitted models and the current model, (4) performance improvement by an ensemble of the submitted models, and (5) future issues based on the questionnaire answers of the participants.
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Keyword(in English) News Comment Ranking / Model Ensemble / In-House Competition
Paper # NLC2019-16
Date of Issue 2019-09-20 (NLC)

Conference Information
Committee NLC / IPSJ-DC
Conference Date 2019/9/27(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Future Corporation
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) The Thirteenth Text Analytics Symposium
Chair Takeshi Sakaki(Hottolink) / Ryoji Akimoto(Toppan Printing)
Vice Chair Mitsuo Yoshida(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.) / Kazutaka Shimada(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Mitsuo Yoshida(Ryukoku Univ.) / Kazutaka Shimada(NTT) / (Future Univ. Hakodate)
Assistant Takeshi Kobayakawa(NHK) / Hiroki Sakaji(Univ. of Tokyo)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication / Special Interest Group on Document Communication
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
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Title (in English) Improvement of Comment Ranking in Yahoo! News by In-House Competition
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) News Comment Ranking
Keyword(2) Model Ensemble
Keyword(3) In-House Competition
1st Author's Name Hiroaki Taguchi
1st Author's Affiliation Yahoo Japan Corporation(Yahoo Japan)
2nd Author's Name Soichiro Fujita
2nd Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology(Tokyo Tech)
3rd Author's Name Hayato Kobayashi
3rd Author's Affiliation Yahoo Japan Corporation/RIKEN AIP(Yahoo Japan/RIKEN)
4th Author's Name Yoshimune Tabuchi
4th Author's Affiliation Yahoo Japan Corporation(Yahoo Japan)
5th Author's Name Ken Kobayashi
5th Author's Affiliation Yahoo Japan Corporation(Yahoo Japan)
6th Author's Name Kazuma Murao
6th Author's Affiliation VISITS Technologies Inc(VISITS Technologies)
7th Author's Name Chahine Koleejan
7th Author's Affiliation Yahoo Japan Corporation(Yahoo Japan)
8th Author's Name Takeshi Masuyama
8th Author's Affiliation Yahoo Japan Corporation(Yahoo Japan)
9th Author's Name Taichi Yatsuka
9th Author's Affiliation Yahoo Japan Corporation(Yahoo Japan)
10th Author's Name Manabu Okumura
10th Author's Affiliation Tokyo Institute of Technology(Tokyo Tech)
Date 2019-09-27
Paper # NLC2019-16
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) NLC-212
Page pp.pp.41-46(NLC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2019-09-20 (NLC)