Multi-Layer Ranking with Large Language Models for News Source Recommendation

Wenjia Zhang, Lin Gui, Rob Procter, Yulan He

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages2537-2542
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9798400704314
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Jul 2024
Event47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024 - Washington, United States
Duration: 14 Jul 202418 Jul 2024

Publication series

NameSIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period14/07/202418/07/2024

Keywords

  • in-context learning
  • large language model
  • recommender system

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