2 papers
cs.CL2024
The Impact of Featuring Comments in Online Discussions
Cedric Waterschoot, Ernst van den Hemel, Antal van den Bosch
A widespread moderation strategy by online news platforms is to feature what the platform deems high quality comments, usually called editor picks or featured comments. In this pap…
cs.IR2023
Hybrid moderation in the newsroom: Recommending featured posts to content moderators
Cedric Waterschoot, Antal van den Bosch
Online news outlets are grappling with the moderation of user-generated content within their comment section. We present a recommender system based on ranking class probabilities t…