System and method for assessing and ranking newsworthiness
OwnerDavid Kenneth ALBERTinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for determining a newsworthiness score for a news story, including the steps of receiving data describing a news story from a client, comparing the data describing the news story to a set of pre-determined factors, locating the factors that are present on the set of pre-determined factors in the data, adding pre-calculated values to a running total, the newsworthiness score, for each factor found in the data.
Claims20
A computer system for determining a newsworthiness score for a news story, the computer system comprising:
- one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories and one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices;
- program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to obtain data describing a news story from a client;
- program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to compare the data describing a news story to a set of pre-determined factors
- to locate at least one of the set of pre-determined factors in the data describing a news story;
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- program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, responsive to locating the at least one of the set of pre-determined factors in the data describing a news story, to add at least one of a set of pre-calculated values to a running total,
- wherein each one of the set of pre-determined factors is assigned a respective one of the set of pre-calculated values and the at least one of the set of pre-calculated values added to the running total is a pre-calculated value associated with the at least one of the pre-determined factors located in the data, and
- wherein the running total comprises a newsworthiness score.
The computer system of 6, wherein the multiplier is derived using a coefficient and an R2 value from a statistically significant multiple linear regression equation.
A method for determining a newsworthiness score for a news story, the method comprising:
- a computer obtaining data describing a news story from a client;
- the computer, responsive to receiving the data describing a news story, comparing the data describing a news story to a set of pre-determined factors;
- to locate at least one of the set of pre-determined factors in the data describing a news story;
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- the computer, responsive to locating the at least one of the set of pre-determined factors in the data describing a news story, adding at least one of a set of pre-calculated values to a running total,
- wherein each one of the set of pre-determined factors is assigned a respective one of the set of pre-calculated values and the at least one of the set of pre-calculated values added to the running total is a pre-calculated value associated with the at least one of the pre-determined factors located in the data,
- wherein each of the pre-calculated values comprises a base score incremented by a respective calculated value;
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- wherein the running total comprises a newsworthiness score.
A computer program product for determining a newsworthiness score for a news story, the computer program product comprising:
- one or more non-transitory computer-readable tangible storage devices readable by one or more processors;
- program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to obtain data describing a news story from a client;
- program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to compare the data describing a news story to a set of pre-determined factors to locate at least one of the set of pre-determined factors in the data describing a news story;
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- program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, responsive to locating the at least one of the set of pre-determined factors in the data describing a news story, to add at least one of a set of pre-calculated values to a running total,
- wherein each one of the set of pre-determined factors is assigned a respective one of the set of pre-calculated values and the at least one of the set of pre-calculated values added to the running total is a pre-calculated value associated with the at least one of the pre-determined factors located in the data, and
- wherein the running total comprises a newsworthiness score.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.