Wenjia Zhang

Wenjia Zhang, Lin Gui, Rob Procter et al.

To seek reliable information sources for news events, we introduce a novel task of expert recommendation, which aims to identify trustworthy sources based on their previously quoted statements. To achieve this, we built a novel dataset, called NewsQuote, consisting of 23,571 quote-speaker pairs sourced from a collection of news articles. We formulate the recommendation task as the retrieval of experts based on their likelihood of being associated with a given query. We also propose a multi-layer ranking framework employing Large Language Models to improve the recommendation performance. Our results show that employing an in-context learning based LLM ranker and a multi-layer ranking-based filter significantly improve both the predictive quality and behavioural quality of the recommender system.

Wenjia Zhang, Lin Gui, Rob Procter et al.

To enhance the ability to find credible evidence in news articles, we propose a novel task of expert recommendation, which aims to identify trustworthy experts on a specific news topic. To achieve the aim, we describe the construction of a novel NewsQuote dataset consisting of 24,031 quote-speaker pairs that appeared on a COVID-19 news corpus. We demonstrate an automatic pipeline for speaker and quote extraction via a BERT-based Question Answering model. Then, we formulate expert recommendations as document retrieval task by retrieving relevant quotes first as an intermediate step for expert identification, and expert retrieval by directly retrieving sources based on the probability of a query conditional on a candidate expert. Experimental results on NewsQuote show that document retrieval is more effective in identifying relevant experts for a given news topic compared to expert retrieval