Predicting the Popularity of Online News Based on the Dynamic Fusion of Multiple Features

Predicting the popularity of online news is essential for news providers and recommendation systems.Time series,content and meta-feature are important features in news popularity prediction.However,there is a lack of exploration of how to integrate them effectively into a deep learning model and how effective and valuable they are to the model’s performance.This work proposes a novel deep learning model named Multiple Features Dynamic Fusion(MFDF)for news popularity prediction.For modeling time series,long short-term memory networks and attention-based convolution neural networks are used to capture long-term trends and short-term fluctuations of online news popularity.The typical convolution neural network gets headline semantic representation for modeling news headlines.In addition,a hierarchical attention network is exploited to extract news content semantic representation while using the latent Dirichlet allocation model to get the subject distribution of news as a semantic supplement.A factorization machine is employed to model the interaction relationship between metafeatures.Considering the role of these features at different stages,the proposed model exploits a time-based attention fusion layer to fuse multiple features dynamically.During the training phase,thiswork designs a loss function based on Newton’s cooling law to train the model better.Extensive experiments on the real-world dataset from Toutiao confirm the effectiveness of the dynamic fusion of multiple features and demonstrate significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art news prediction techniques.

Deep Learning Model for News Quality Evaluation Based on Explicit and Implicit Information

Recommending high-quality news to users is vital in improving user stickiness and news platforms’reputation.However,existing news quality evaluation methods,such as clickbait detection and popularity prediction,are challenging to reflect news quality comprehensively and concisely.This paper defines news quality as the ability of news articles to elicit clicks and comments from users,which represents whether the news article can attract widespread attention and discussion.Based on the above definition,this paper first presents a straightforward method to measure news quality based on the comments and clicks of news and defines four news quality indicators.Then,the dataset can be labeled automatically by the method.Next,this paper proposes a deep learning model that integrates explicit and implicit news information for news quality evaluation(EINQ).The explicit information includes the headline,source,and publishing time of the news,which attracts users to click.The implicit information refers to the news article’s content which attracts users to comment.The implicit and explicit information affect users’click and comment behavior differently.For modeling explicit information,the typical convolution neural network(CNN)is used to get news headline semantic representation.For modeling implicit information,a hierarchical attention network(HAN)is exploited to extract news content semantic representation while using the latent Dirichlet allocation(LDA)model to get the subject distribution of news as a semantic supplement.Considering the different roles of explicit and implicit information for quality evaluation,the EINQ exploits an attention layer to fuse them dynamically.The proposed model yields the Accuracy of 82.31%and the F-Score of 80.51%on the real-world dataset from Toutiao,which shows the effectiveness of explicit and implicit information dynamic fusion and demonstrates performance improvements over a variety of baseline models in news quality evaluation.This work provides empirical evidence for explicit and implicit factors in news quality evaluation and a new idea for news quality evaluation.

Non-equilibrium Plasma Assisted Combustion of Low Heating Value Fuels

This paper describes the effects of non-equilibrium air plasma generated by a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) on the combustion of low heating value fuels. The experimental results indicate that addition of a very small amount of energy to the air flow in the form of DBD significantly improves the flame stability. Moreover, main combustion characteristics such as flame propagation speed, combustion intensity and lean blow-off limits are also enhanced by the effect of plasma. Some active radicals such as excited O atom and excited N2 molecule are observed by spectrograph in the discharge area. Based on the results of numerical investigation we can conclude that these active radicals generated in discharge area can accelerate the production rate of active OH radical which plays a key role in the oxidation process of low heating value fuel, and thus the whole combustion process is accelerated.