SPICED: News Similarity Detection Dataset with Multiple Topics and Complexity Levels

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Main Authors: Shushkevich, Elena, Mai, Long, Loureiro, Manuel V., Derby, Steven, Wijaya, Tri Kurniawan
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Published: 2023
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author Shushkevich, Elena
Mai, Long
Loureiro, Manuel V.
Derby, Steven
Wijaya, Tri Kurniawan
author_facet Shushkevich, Elena
Mai, Long
Loureiro, Manuel V.
Derby, Steven
Wijaya, Tri Kurniawan
contents The proliferation of news media outlets has increased the demand for intelligent systems capable of detecting redundant information in news articles in order to enhance user experience. However, the heterogeneous nature of news can lead to spurious findings in these systems: Simple heuristics such as whether a pair of news are both about politics can provide strong but deceptive downstream performance. Segmenting news similarity datasets into topics improves the training of these models by forcing them to learn how to distinguish salient characteristics under more narrow domains. However, this requires the existence of topic-specific datasets, which are currently lacking. In this article, we propose a novel dataset of similar news, SPICED, which includes seven topics: Crime & Law, Culture & Entertainment, Disasters & Accidents, Economy & Business, Politics & Conflicts, Science & Technology, and Sports. Futhermore, we present four different levels of complexity, specifically designed for news similarity detection task. We benchmarked the created datasets using MinHash, BERT, SBERT, and SimCSE models.
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spellingShingle SPICED: News Similarity Detection Dataset with Multiple Topics and Complexity Levels
Shushkevich, Elena
Mai, Long
Loureiro, Manuel V.
Derby, Steven
Wijaya, Tri Kurniawan
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
The proliferation of news media outlets has increased the demand for intelligent systems capable of detecting redundant information in news articles in order to enhance user experience. However, the heterogeneous nature of news can lead to spurious findings in these systems: Simple heuristics such as whether a pair of news are both about politics can provide strong but deceptive downstream performance. Segmenting news similarity datasets into topics improves the training of these models by forcing them to learn how to distinguish salient characteristics under more narrow domains. However, this requires the existence of topic-specific datasets, which are currently lacking. In this article, we propose a novel dataset of similar news, SPICED, which includes seven topics: Crime & Law, Culture & Entertainment, Disasters & Accidents, Economy & Business, Politics & Conflicts, Science & Technology, and Sports. Futhermore, we present four different levels of complexity, specifically designed for news similarity detection task. We benchmarked the created datasets using MinHash, BERT, SBERT, and SimCSE models.
title SPICED: News Similarity Detection Dataset with Multiple Topics and Complexity Levels
topic Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13080