Ben Welsh — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Spatial Layouts in News Homepages Capture Human Preferences

Alexander Spangher, Michael Vu, Arda Kaz, Naitian Zhou, Ben Welsh

EMNLP 2025

Information prioritization plays an important role in the way we perceive and understand the world. Homepage layouts, which are daily and manually curated by expert human news editors, serve as a tangible proxy for this prioritization. In this work, we present NewsHomepages, a novel and massive data

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2024

Tracking the Newsworthiness of Public Documents

Alexander Spangher, Serdar Tumgoren, Ben Welsh, Nanyun Peng, Emilio Ferrara, Jonathan May

ACL 2024long

Journalists regularly make decisions on whether or not to report stories, based on “news values”. In this work, we wish to explicitly model these decisions to explore _when_ and _why_ certain stories get press attention. This is challenging because very few labelled links between source documents an…

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