News Monitor: A Framework for Exploring News in Real-Time

News articles generated by online media are a major source of information. In this work, we present News Monitor, a framework that automatically collects news articles from a wide variety of online news portals and performs various analysis tasks. The framework initially identifies fresh news (first stories) and clusters articles about the same incidents. For every story, at first, it extracts all of the corresponding triples and, then, it creates a knowledge base (KB) using open information extraction techniques. This knowledge base is then used to create a summary for the user. News Monitor allows for the users to use it as a search engine, ask their questions in their natural language and receive answers that have been created by the state-of-the-art framework BERT. In addition, News Monitor crawls the Twitter stream using a dynamic set of “trending” keywords in order to retrieve all messages relevant to the news. The framework is distributed, online and performs analysis in real-time. According to the evaluation results, the fake news detection techniques utilized by News Monitor allow for a F-measure of 82% in the rumor identification task and an accuracy of 92% in the stance detection tasks. The major contribution of this work can be summarized as a novel real-time and scalable architecture that combines various effective techniques under a news analysis framework.

Ideals and ideologies

In response to Ling Xin’s news analysis article “Tibet seen as ideal stargazing spot” in which she reports that Chinese astronomer Licai Deng has found that Saishiteng Mountain in the Tibetan Plateau has ideal conditions for future gigantic optical telescopes.

Bentong Constituency Study Before and After 14th General Election in Malaysia: A Preliminary Chinese News Analysis

Bentong constituency has always been the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) electoral stronghold and under the Barisan National (BN) coalition since Malaysia's independence in 1957. However, during the 14th Malaysian general election (GE14) political tsunami, the MCA has lost this parliament seat (P89 Bentong) to the Democratic Action Party (DAP), which is under the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition on 9 May 2018. Besides, Bentong is the traditional constituency of the MCA leadership, such as the first Member of Parliament (MP) for Bentong (1959-1989), Tan Sri Chan Siang Sun, retired as Health Minister cum MCA Vice-President. The second MP for Bentong is Tan Sri Lim Ah Lek (1989-1999), and he retired as Human Resources Minister cum MCA Deputy President. Before GE14, Dato' Sri Liow Tiong Lai was the third MP for Bentong (1999-2018) and retired as Transport Minister cum MCA President. Bentong is a district located in western Pahang, Malaysia. In 2005, Bentong officially declared as Bentong Municipal Council. According to Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM, 2011), Bentong population has reached about 115,000 people with administrative covered area of 335 square miles (868 square km) including Bentong Town, Genting Highlands, Karak, Telemong, Manchis, Sungai Dua and Bukit Tinggi. While its control area covered Sungai Gapoi, Simpang Pelangai, Kampung Shafie, Jambu Rias, Janda Baik and Sungai Penjuring. Keywords: Bentong, GE14, Sinchew, Economics, Chinese

A FrontPage Online News Analysis: An Opinion Mining Approach

The advent of the internet with its attendant democratization of data and deluge of information had given rise to the avalanche of news media agencies. These agencies publish news articles with varying emotional reports especially stories conveying bad sentiments to the public. As major news agencies operate micro-blogging websites and establish their presence on social media channels, the distribution of bad news increases. It has been shown that constant exposure to bad news presented in a body of texts, graphics, and videos/audios contribute to increase in high blood pressure, anxiety attacks, bowel disorders, stroke and/or heart failure. In this work, we presented a sentiment analysis framework to extract news articles from FrontPage of online newspapers and generate contextual wordlists to support positive news broadcasting. Using a set of 12 Nigerian online news channels, we employed a hybrid method of dictionary and corpus-based lexicon approaches to achieve the wordlist derivation. The result advocates for an alternative way of reporting negative news to reduce the adverse impact it has on the masses.

Frame Pemberitaan Terkait Reuni Persaudaraan Alumni (PA) 212 Pada Tahun 2018 di Media Republika Online

<p class="15bIsiAbstractBInggris"><em><span lang="EN-US">This study aims to examine the reporting frame regarding the reunion of the 212 Alumni Brotherhood. The research method was qualitative content analysis with Robert N. Entman. Research results: online Republika constructs news related to the reunion of the alumni fraternity 212 through Islamic ideology. This shows that Republika Online illustrates a positive thing about the implementation and impact of the alumni reunion fraternity 212. It is known that there are also imbalances in the news regarding reunion 212. Based on Robert N. Entman’s framing, which has four: Define Problem, Diagnose Causes, Make Moral Judgement, Treatment Recommendation. It can be concluded that the Online Republika news analysis seems to support the implementation of the alumni brotherhood reunion following the perspective of media ideology, namely Islamic ideology. Suggestion: Republika Online editor to maintain the balance of the news by paying attention to the cover both sides on each issue because some news does not cover both sides. So, readers can find out the entire contents of the information on one news issue</span></em><em><span lang="EN-MY">.</span></em></p><p class="15cKeywordsBInggris"><strong><span lang="IN">Abs</span><span lang="EN-US">trak</span></strong></p><p class="16aJudulAbstrak"> </p><p class="16bIsiAbstrak"><span lang="IN">Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji kerangka pemberitaan terkait reuni persaudaraan alumni 212. Metode penelitian adalah analisis isi kualitatif dengan Robert N. Entman. Hasil penelitian: Republika online mengkonstruksi berita terkait reuni frater alumni 212 melalui perspektif ideologi Islam. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa Republika Online menggambarkan hal yang positif tentang pelaksanaan dan dampak dari pelaksanaan reuni alumni 212. Diketahui juga terdapat ketimpangan pemberitaan terkait reuni 212. Berdasarkan framing Robert N. Entman yang memiliki empat yaitu Mendefinisikan Masalah, Mendiagnosis Penyebab, Membuat Penilaian Moral, Rekomendasi Pengobatan. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa analisis berita Republika Online tampaknya mendukung terselenggaranya reuni persaudaraan alumni sesuai dengan perspektif ideologi media yaitu ideologi Islam. Saran: Redaksi Republika Online agar menjaga keseimbangan pemberitaan dengan memperhatikan cover kedua sisi pada setiap terbitan, karena ada beberapa berita yang tidak meliput kedua sisi. Jadi, pembaca dapat mengetahui isi berita secara lengkap pada satu edisi berita<strong>.</strong></span></p>