KR20030089026A - System and Method for Collecting and Evaluating News Articles on Internet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and a method for collecting and evaluating an article using the Internet are provided to offer an evaluation result for each article in real-time by collecting the article information, selecting the evaluation object from the collected article, and opening it to a web site. CONSTITUTION: An article searching/collecting module(110) extracts the article information from an expression organization server by a request from an article collector client system and stores it. An article information database(120) stores the searched/collected article information. An evaluation object selecting module(130) fixes the evaluation object article from the collected article based on the input from an evaluation object selector client system. An evaluation module(140) displays the evaluation object article information, produces the evaluation result for each article information based on the evaluation input from an evaluator client system, and displays it. An evaluation result database(150) stores the evaluation result.

Description

System and Method for Collecting and Evaluating News Articles on Internet}

The present invention collects and manages a (newspaper) article collection and evaluation service system and method using the Internet, and more specifically, collects and manages contents containing an article or a report on a specific event, and provides it to an unspecified person through the Internet. The present invention relates to a system and method that enables the monitoring and fair evaluation of the media by conducting article contents, criticism and evaluation of the media organizations through separate evaluations.

Internet services originated from Appanet, which began to share information related to military research by the US Department of Defense, and has now evolved into a large computer network with numerous computer networks around the world.

The Internet is used for various purposes such as e-mail, newsgroups, file transfer, information transfer, and information retrieval, and is used as the most efficient information storage medium and information providing medium.

Specifically, the Internet includes various services existing in the TCP / IP protocol and its upper layers, namely, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Telnet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). It is a global open computer network architecture that provides Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Network File Service (NFS), and Network Information Service (NIS).

Therefore, about half of Koreans are getting the information they need from the Internet, and this trend is expected to expand further.

Meanwhile, companies that provide article information on specific issues, such as newspapers and broadcasting, are also entering the Internet, and most offline newspapers, broadcasters and online newspapers have their own web pages. For example, the so-called Digital Chosun Daily Web site, www.chosun.com, allows you to search for articles about all the print media published by Chosun Ilbo.

As such, it is no exaggeration to say that Internet users are living in the flood of press releases that many media outlets provide over the Internet. However, the objective credibility or fairness of the article or the press content is not secured, and therefore, articles of completely different tone are provided on the same issue.

Therefore, the right to know the objective facts of the people is being violated, and various pseudo media are exploiting this point.

Therefore, Internet users need to know objective facts by identifying which articles or reports are fair, and also need strong surveillance of pseudo media that do not have fair or objective tone through this procedure.

On the other hand, the evaluation site for a variety of information (Information) currently on the Internet is widely used. Mainly, evaluation services for various websites for each field, evaluation services for products or contents, and the like.

However, such an evaluation service does not have special conditions for selecting an evaluation target, or a non-specialist often selects an evaluation target, thereby failing to give objectivity or reliability to a general user.

In addition, since the evaluation target is mainly about a website or a company, it can only be a rough evaluation, and evaluation of details is insufficient. For example, an evaluation site for a shopping mall, an evaluation site for a site, and the like are examples.

In addition, such evaluation service has a disadvantage that it is difficult to be considered as an objective evaluation because duplicate evaluation by the same user cannot be prevented.

The present invention has been made in view of this point, collects content on the content of the article or report on a specific issue of various media organizations existing on the Internet, objectively select the evaluation target, the general user for the selected evaluation target To provide real-time evaluation results.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for collecting and objectively evaluating articles or reports on the Internet.

Another object of the present invention is to evaluate the article information collected by the article collector, select the evaluation targets worth evaluation by the article selector and to publish on the website, the results of the public evaluation for each article by the general consumer To provide an article evaluation system and method that can provide in real time.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an article evaluation system and method that can ensure objectivity and reliability by preventing duplicate evaluation by the same user.

1 schematically shows a configuration of an entire system for implementing an article evaluation service according to the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing a configuration for each function of an article evaluation web server according to the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an article search / collection step.

4 is a flowchart showing the evaluation target article selection step.

5 is a flowchart showing an article evaluation step.

6 illustrates an example of a user interface (UI) for performing a search / collection step of an evaluation candidate article.

7 illustrates an example of a user interface (UI) for performing a selection step of an article to be evaluated.

8 illustrates an example of a user interface (UI) for performing an article evaluation step.

9 shows an example of a screen on which the article evaluation result according to the present invention is output.

In order to achieve the object as described above, the article evaluation system according to the present invention has the following configuration.

A web server interworking with at least one media agency server, at least one evaluator client system, at least one article collector client system, and at least one evaluator client system via the Internet,

An article search / collection module for extracting and storing corresponding article information from the media agency server according to a request from the article collector client system;

An article information database storing the searched / collected article information;

An evaluation target selection module for specifying an evaluation target article among the collected articles based on an input from the evaluation target selector client system;

An evaluation module for displaying the evaluation target article information and calculating and displaying an evaluation result for each article information based on an evaluation input from the reviewer client system;

And an evaluation information database for storing the evaluation result.

Preferably, the evaluation module ignores the evaluation input when receiving the client identification code from the evaluator client system and evaluating the same article information. To this end, the web server stores an application program for avoiding duplication, and when an evaluator client that does not have the corresponding application program transmits an evaluation input, transmits the program to the evaluator client system for installation.

Such an anti-duplicating application program has a function of transmitting an identification code unique to the client system when the evaluation input is transmitted from the evaluator client system on which it is installed to the web server.

The article evaluation method according to the present invention uses a system linked with at least one press agency server, at least one evaluator client system, at least one article collector client system, and at least one evaluator selector client system via the Internet.

An article search / collection step of extracting and storing corresponding article information from the media agency server according to a request from the article collector client system;

An evaluation target selection step of specifying an evaluation target article among the collected articles based on an input from the evaluation target selector client system;

And an evaluation step of displaying the evaluation target article information and evaluating and displaying the evaluation result for each article information based on the evaluation input from the reviewer client system.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 1 schematically shows the configuration of the entire system for implementing the article evaluation service according to the present invention, one or more media agency server 11, one or more evaluator client that is linked through the Internet network 10 as a medium System 12, one or more article collector client systems 13, one or more evaluation target selector client systems 14, and an article evaluation web server 100 according to the present invention.

The media agency server 11 stores all the article information, and includes an article DB that can be searched by keyword or the like.

In addition, the evaluator, article collector, and evaluation target selector client system 12 to 14 are physically the same as a general PC connected to the Internet 10, but in the procedure of logging into the article evaluation web server 100. The authority is determined accordingly.

Article evaluation web server 100 has the same configuration as a conventional web server in hardware. However, in software, as will be described in detail below with reference to FIG. 2, it includes a program module that performs various functions.

2 is a block diagram showing a configuration for each function of an article evaluation web server according to the present invention.

Article evaluation web server 100 is an article search / collection module 110 for extracting and storing the corresponding article information from the media agency server in response to a request from the article collector client system, and stores the searched / collected article information Displaying the article information database 120, an evaluation target selection module 130 for specifying an evaluation target article among the collected articles based on input from the evaluation target selector client system, and the evaluation target article information, An evaluation module 140 for calculating and displaying evaluation results for each article information based on the evaluation input from the commenter client system, and an evaluation information database 150 for storing the evaluation results. In addition, in order to authenticate whether the connected user is one or more of an article collector, an evaluation target article selector, and an evaluator, a user database 160 that stores information of the user is further included.

The above-described modules and databases may be implemented in software, and detailed functions will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 3 to 4 below.

3 is a flowchart showing the functions of the above-mentioned article search / collection module, that is, the article search / collection step.

First, a user who is properly subscribed as an article collector logs in to an article evaluation web server as an "article collector" (S311), writes a title of an issue to be evaluated (S312), and connects to a desired media agency server for related information. Search for the article (S313). When the relevant article is found and the article title is clicked and selected (S314), the article selection / collection module of the article evaluation web server linked with the corresponding media agency server automatically extracts the title and URL information of the selected article ( S315).

The article collector searches other media servers and collects other articles related to the title together, and the article search / collection step is completed by searching / collecting related articles of all desired media agencies and storing them in the article information DB. S316, S317).

"Evaluation candidate article information" stored in the article information DB is divided into one "Evaluation Subject Title" field, and collected by one or more article collectors, in addition to information on the date and time registered as the candidate for evaluation. The title and contents of one or more articles and the URL information of the corresponding article are matched and stored. If necessary, information about the article collector can also be stored.

For example, for the issue (subject) of "Selection of Next-Generation Fighter," the collector "A" has an article titled "a" of the journal "A" and the title "b" of the journal "B". If the article of "C" and the article "c" of the press agency "C" is selected, it may be stored in a table as shown in Table 1 below.

In addition, if you click the title of the title and content column, you can see the contents of the collected article, and if you click the url of the URL column, you can see the corresponding article provided by the web server of the press. In addition, it is desirable to edit the title and contents by clicking the title in case the article is collected with errors.

Example of Storing an Issued or Evaluation Candidate Article 1 Evaluation subject Press Title and Content URL Collector Date and time of collection Next Generation Fighter Selection A F15 Final Selection www.a.com/news.cgi?cnum=100092 Hondgd 02.04.0614: 32 B Next Generation Fighter F-15 www.b.co.kr/art.cgi?num=020405 C US F-15 Final Selection www.c.co.kr/dir/10001030.html

Of course, the same issue can be managed in the same table, even if the issue title entered by the collector is different.

For example, on the same issue of "selecting next-generation fighters," the collector "Gap" would be an article entitled "a" of the journal "A" and press "B" for the subject of the evaluation subject of "selecting next-generation fighters." "B" was collected, and the "a" collector had the same issue titled "A-15" from the media agency "A". If the article "c" of the media agency "C" is selected, it can be integrated and stored in a table as shown in Table 2 below.

Example 2 How to store an issue or candidate for evaluation Issue Evaluation subject Press Title and Content URL Collector Date and time of collection Selected next generation fighter Next Generation Fighter Selection A F15 Final Selection www.a.com/news.cgi?cnum=100092 Hondgd 02.04.0614: 32 B Next Generation Fighter F-15 www.b.co.kr/art.cgi?num=020405 F-15 Final Selection A F15 Final Selection www.a.com/news.cgi?cnum=100092 Chulkim 02.04.0616: 05 C US F-15 Final Selection www.c.co.kr/dir/10001030.html

To this end, it is desirable that the article evaluation website displays the web pages of the media organizations requested by the user (article collector) at the same time.

One example of such an article retrieval / gathering step is described in more detail below with respect to FIG. 6.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a function of the above-described evaluation target selection module, that is, an evaluation target article selection step.

After a user who is properly subscribed to the evaluation target article selector logs in to the article evaluation web server as the "evaluation target article selector" (S411), an issue to search for and vote on the candidate candidate articles stored in the article information database or Select the article (S412). Among the candidate articles to be evaluated, it is worth deserving the evaluation by the general user, and it is necessary to post them in a "valuation approval" or "approval of posting" (S414). Oppose posting "is selected (S415). Such a selection act of the article selector for evaluation is a kind of "voting" action, and the voting result for each candidate article for evaluation or an issue to be evaluated is counted by the article evaluation web server. If the evaluation target selection vote is completed (S416), the final vote result of the selector is stored in the appropriate database of the article evaluation web server (S417).

Searching and voting of the candidate articles to be evaluated may be made by evaluation subject "issues" or may be made by each evaluation candidate "article" included in one evaluation subject.

That is, in the case of <Table 2> above, the voting for the candidates to be evaluated may be made on the entire issue to be evaluated as "final selection of the next generation fighter" or may be made for each article registered as the issue. . By doing the latter, it is possible to exclude articles from media organizations that do not have much value on the same issue, thus solving the disadvantage of having too many articles to be evaluated.

Although not shown, the article evaluation web server determines whether or not to post a specific issue or a specific article based on a voting result by one or more evaluation target article selectors. For example, in the case of <Table 2>, if there are votes for a specific issue, all the articles included in the issue should be posted only if there are many opinions agreeing to the evaluation of the issue of "Selecting Next Generation Fighter." . In addition, if a vote is made for individual articles included in the issue, only the articles that have been voted in favor of evaluation by more than half of the selected article selectors are posted.

Of course, there may be a separate set of criteria for the percentage of votes that will be allowed to post.

The article finally selected as the evaluation target article is posted to be displayed on the evaluator client system by the article evaluation web server, and then proceeds to the detailed evaluation step.

5 is a flowchart showing the function of the above-described evaluation module, that is, the article evaluation step.

Any user accesses the article evaluation web server according to the present invention (S511), checks the evaluation screen on which the article to be evaluated is posted, and selects an issue to be evaluated (S512).

After selecting the articles included in the evaluation target issue and viewing the contents of the articles, the evaluation scores are assigned to the articles (S513). The evaluation of the article can be made by each item, and these items can be "objectivity", "reliability", "fairness", and "faithfulness". Detailed evaluation methods and procedures will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 7.

After endorsement of the evaluation scores for a plurality of articles included in one same issue, the final "vote" or "end evaluation" button is clicked (S514).

In the article evaluation service according to the present invention, for fair and objective evaluation, many users should be able to participate freely. Therefore, it is desirable not to burden the evaluator to join as a member.

However, in order to allow any unauthorized user to make an evaluation, one-person evaluation is essential for fair evaluation. Therefore, since the same user should be prevented from being duplicated, it is preferable that the article evaluation web server ignores the evaluation input when receiving the client identification code from the evaluator client system and evaluating the same article information. .

To this end, the present invention uses a "duplicate prevention application program". The anti-duplicating application program is installed in the evaluator's client system, and when the user's "evaluation result" is transmitted to the article evaluation web server, it functions to transmit the unique identification means of the client system.

That is, the duplication prevention application program should store the unique number for each client system in the form of a file or a system database on the system's hard disk, and prevent the user from arbitrarily changing or deleting it.

On the other hand, when the web server receives the "evaluation result" from the evaluator client system, if there is no unique identification means of the client system, it is determined that the anti-duplicate application program is not installed in the client system (S515), and the program Make it available for download and installation.

In addition, when an application program for preventing duplication is installed in the evaluator client system or is downloaded and installed, the evaluator client system transmits its evaluation result to the web server together with the system unique identification means (S517).

When the web server receives the "evaluation result" attached to the unique identification means of the client system, the web server searches the evaluation result DB to determine whether there is an evaluation result with the same client system identification code already attached to the same evaluation target article (S518). ), If there is a duplicate warning message output and the evaluation result is ignored (S520).

If it is determined that the duplicate evaluation is not, the corresponding evaluation result is stored in the evaluation result DB (S519).

To this end, the evaluation result DB should store information related to evaluation and certification, such as each article identification means and a unique identification means of the evaluator client system that inputs the evaluation result for the article, the evaluation result, and the evaluation period.

The "unique identification means of the client system" may be anything unique to the system, such as a cookie, the user's IP address, for example.

However, if a cookie or user's IP is used, it is possible to deliberately delete the cookie or change the IP so that duplicate votes can be attempted. It is desirable to store the file in the form of a file or system database on the disk, and to prevent the user from modifying or deleting them arbitrarily.

The unique number identifiable by each evaluator client system is installed when the duplication prevention application program is installed in the evaluator client system by communicating with the article evaluating web server through the Internet to be given a unique number which is not duplicated with other evaluator client systems.

The article evaluation web server receives and stores the evaluation result of the article, and publishes the evaluation result after a certain period or in real time.

This evaluation method and procedure will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 7.

6 illustrates an example of a user interface (UI) for performing a search / collection step of an evaluation candidate article.

When a user who is properly subscribed as an article collector logs in or accesses an article evaluation web server as an "article collector" using his client system, the article evaluation web server displays the "article search / collection screen" as shown in FIG. Will be displayed.

The article collector enters the title and date of the issue to be evaluated and selects a media agency to search / collect. In the drawing, one of the A, B, and C media organizations can be selected in the form of a radio button, but the implementation is not limited.

If press A is selected in the article view state, the homepage of press A is displayed in the lower frame so that the homepage of A can be freely viewed.

In the article selection state, if you select press A, the article evaluation web server changes the link information in the title among the contents sent by the corresponding media server in the lower frame of the screen. In other words, if you click on the title of the article, the title of the article is extracted and the selected article is displayed in the subject area for evaluation subject in the upper frame of the screen. Save the article creation date, and configure it so that it can be shown in the selected article part.

Clicking on a title in the selected article section shows the title, content, URL, article creation date, etc., and allows you to correct the error.

If you want to search for articles from other media outlets, select the media outlet (B) again. The following procedure is the same as described above, and once the article search / collection for all desired media agencies is completed, click the "Complete" button.

7 illustrates an example of a user interface (UI) for performing a selection step of an article to be evaluated.

When a user who is properly subscribed as an evaluation target article selector logs into the article evaluation web server as an "article selector" using his client system, the article evaluation web server displays the "evaluation candidate list screen" as shown in FIG. 7A. To display.

When the evaluator selects one of FIG. 7A, a screen for selecting an evaluation target vote is displayed as shown in FIG. 7B. As shown, the evaluator votes in favor of the evaluation of the entire issue, and then separately votes on articles that can be directly compared and evaluated among the registered articles.

For example, if four articles are registered on the issue of "Selecting next-generation fighters", vote "Yes" on all issues, and among them, "Preparation for Rapal Manufacturer Litigation" by Media D, which cannot be compared objectively. You may vote "no" to the article. By doing so, it is possible to exclude candidate articles that cannot be treated as fair and objective, even if they are registered by an article collector.

After the evaluator selects the article and presses the "Done" button, the article evaluation web server saves the "post vote" result of the evaluator in the DB in the DB and posts a vote for each issue after a certain period of time. Post more articles only.

8 illustrates an example of a user interface (UI) for performing an evaluation step of a public (evaluator).

When the evaluator accesses the article evaluation web server, the evaluation initial screen is displayed, and the evaluator selects the article to be evaluated and moves to the evaluation screen as shown in FIG. In the initial evaluation screen, it is preferable that the user can select only the issues or articles of interest by providing a list of articles or issues that are currently being evaluated by category or title. Of course, the article evaluation web server administrator can unilaterally select and display the article to be evaluated without the evaluator's selection.

In the upper frame of the evaluation screen of FIG. 8, a [Guide] item for explaining the evaluation is provided. In addition to the basic explanation, it is desirable to present evaluation items and scoring criteria. In the drawings, "fairness", "objectivity", "reliability" and "faithfulness" are illustrated as an evaluation item for the article, but are not limited thereto.

In the lower frame of FIG. 8, an [evaluate] item is provided. In the Evaluating section, information about two or more related articles collected by the collector and selected by the selector, together with the title of the subject to be evaluated, is presented in a table form.

For each article, the corresponding media agency name, article title and content view fields are provided, and fields for assigning an evaluation score to each evaluation item are provided. In the drawing, an example in which an evaluation score can be selected in the form of a "Combo Box" for each evaluation item is illustrated.

The rightmost field automatically calculates and outputs the total number of evaluation scores given by the evaluator for the article.

The evaluator assigns a score for all articles on the issue and then clicks the "Vote" button below. Then, the evaluation result or voting result is transmitted to the article evaluation web server. At this time, when the "duplicate prevention application program" is already installed in the evaluator's computer system, the unique identification means of the evaluator system is simultaneously transmitted to the web server together with the evaluation result.

Evaluation result The web server receives the evaluation result from the evaluator client system to determine whether the evaluation is duplicated, and stores the evaluation result in the evaluation DB only when the evaluation is not duplicated. Whether or not the duplicate evaluation is performed uses a unique identification means of the client system attached to the received evaluation result.

That is, when the evaluation results are stored in the evaluation DB, the evaluator may store the evaluator's unique identification means together, and determine whether there is an evaluation result having the same client identification means for the same issue.

In addition, if the article evaluation web server is not attached to the client system unique identification means in the evaluation results, to download and install the application program for the prevention of duplication to the client system of the evaluator.

In addition, when the "view results" button at the bottom of the evaluation screen of Figure 8 is clicked, as shown in Figure 9, it is possible to view the evaluation results by issue or by press.

9 shows an example of a screen on which the article evaluation result according to the present invention is output.

In FIG. 9A, the scores of the articles of a particular press on a particular issue are shown in a table, and other readers are provided with a function of uploading opinions.

In FIG. 9B, media organizations and articles that have received the highest and lowest ratings for each issue are shown. FIG. 9C illustrates screens in which time-based evaluation results are output for A, B, and C media organizations (newspaper companies).

Of course, the method of deriving and providing an evaluation result for each issue or a media organization is not limited to the above description, and may be modified in various forms such as an evaluation result for an article and an evaluation result for a period.

As described above is illustratively described for the practice of the present invention, not intended to limit or limit the scope of the invention, other modifications or changes will be possible within the scope of the invention.

By using the article evaluation system and method according to the present invention as described above, a method and procedure for evaluating an article or a report content are prepared online, and thus, an objective and fair evaluation can be made to a large number of media organizations. have.

On the basis of the public evaluation results of each media agency, Internet users can not only get closer to the objective facts by checking which media agency's articles or reports are fair, but also through these procedures to the pseudo media who have no fair or objective tone. It can provide strong monitoring function.

Claims (8)

A web server interworking with at least one media agency server, at least one evaluator client system, at least one article collector client system, and at least one evaluator client system via the Internet, An article search / collection module for extracting and storing corresponding article information from the media agency server according to a request from the article collector client system; An article information database storing the searched / collected article information; An evaluation target selection module for specifying an evaluation target article among the collected articles based on an input from the evaluation target selector client system; An evaluation module which displays the evaluation target article information and calculates and displays an evaluation result for each article information based on an evaluation input from the commentator client system; And, Article collection and evaluation system using the Internet, characterized in that it comprises an evaluation results database for storing the evaluation results. The method of claim 1, The article search / collection module is an article collection and evaluation system using the Internet, characterized in that for searching / collecting articles of one or more other media organizations related to one issue. The method of claim 2, The evaluation target selection module may select whether or not to post and select an article to be evaluated for each of the issues or one or more articles collected and stored related to the issue from the one or more evaluation target selector client systems. Article collection and evaluation system using the Internet, characterized in that for receiving and selecting the article to be evaluated according to the ratio of the received or rejected signal received. The method of claim 1, The evaluation module detects the duplicate evaluation input transmitted from the same evaluator client system by searching the evaluation result DB, and excludes the evaluation result from the evaluation result calculation if the duplicate evaluation input is a duplicate evaluation input. . The method of claim 4, wherein The web server stores an application program for prevention of duplication, and when an evaluation input is transmitted from an evaluator client system in which the application program is not already installed, the web server transmits and installs the program to the evaluator client system. Wherein the application program for anti-duplication, article transmission and evaluation system using the Internet, characterized in that when transmitting the evaluation input from the evaluator client system is installed to the web server, the identification means unique to the client system. The method of claim 5, The evaluation module recognizes the client system identification means included in the evaluation input from the evaluator client system, searches the evaluation DB, and duplicates the evaluation result information stored in the same client system identification means for the same evaluation object. Article collection and evaluation system using the Internet, characterized in that judged as input. By using a system linked with at least one media server, at least one evaluator client system, at least one article collector client system, and at least one evaluator client system via the Internet, An article search / collection step of extracting and storing corresponding article information from the media agency server according to a request from the article collector client system; An evaluation target selection step of specifying an evaluation target article among the collected articles based on an input from the evaluation target selector client system; And an evaluation step of displaying the evaluation target article information and evaluating and displaying the evaluation result for each article information based on the evaluation input from the comment client system. Assessment Methods. The method of claim 7, wherein In the evaluation step, a duplicate evaluation input transmitted from the same evaluator client system is detected, and in the case of a duplicate evaluation input article collection and evaluation method using the Internet, characterized in that excluded from the evaluation result calculation.