# Islander: A Real-Time News Monitoring and Analysis System

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11457 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.11457/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 8 of its 24 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 25 Apr 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.11692/) (2019)
- [node2vec: Scalable Feature Learning for Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.00653/) (2016)
- [Defending Against Neural Fake News](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.12616/) (2019)
- [Adversarial Training Methods for Semi-Supervised Text Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1605.07725/) (2016)
- [Stop Clickbait: Detecting and Preventing Clickbaits in Online News Media](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1610.09786/) (2016)
- [Prta: A System to Support the Analysis of Propaganda Techniques in the News](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.05854/) (2020)
- [How algorithmic popularity bias hinders or promotes quality](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.00574/) (2017)
- [NSTM: Real-Time Query-Driven News Overview Composition at Bloomberg](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.01117/) (2020)

## Abstract (arXiv)

With thousands of news articles from hundreds of sources distributed and shared every day, news consumption and information acquisition have been increasingly difficult for readers. Additionally, the content of news articles is becoming catchy or even inciting to attract readership, harming the accuracy of news reporting. We present Islander, an online news analyzing system. The system allows users to browse trending topics with articles from multiple sources and perspectives. We define several metrics as proxies for news quality, and develop algorithms for automatic estimation. The quality estimation results are delivered through a web interface to newsreaders for easy access to news and information. The website is publicly available at https://islander.cc/