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導讀：微軟今日釋出了一個人工智能的新聞聚合器Bing Spotlight，該新聞聚合器能夠在Bing搜尋結果中高亮突出重點新聞報道。Bing Spotlight不隻是提供表面的頭條新聞，還能夠展示出從“各種角度”看事件的詳細時間表，以及相關的社交媒體文章和深入報道的連結。（文末更多往期譯文推薦）
如今新聞媒體泛濫，微軟為了提供理清新聞脈絡的服務，今日釋出了新産品，一個人工智能的新聞聚合器Bing Spotlight，該産品可以提供在Bing搜尋結果中新聞事件發展的追溯過程。
Bing Spotlight不隻是表面的頭條新聞。它還能夠展示從“各種角度”看事件的詳細時間表，以及相關的社交媒體文章和深入報道的連結。
“使用者能夠信任我們提供的新聞，對Bing（必應）來說至關重要，”Bing團隊寫道，“我們緻力于給使用者提供來自不同品質來源的全面新聞視訊。”
Bing Spotlight可以在美國的Bing桌面和移動網絡上使用。發言人通過電子郵件表示，Bing Spotlight是一個“持續開發的功能”，團隊将根據使用者回報，評估其功能選項。
Bing Spotlight的深度學習算法基于每天數百萬個搜尋查詢和新聞文章，由此來高亮突出趨勢性的話題。算法由“數億”網站的網絡圖表訓練，涉及讀取浏覽器日志，報道故事的出版商數量以及每個出版商在其網站上展示各自故事的重要性等信号。
文章必須是“原創的，可讀的，有新聞價值的和透明的”，才能在最佳位置标記，并且文章必須證明其是“合理的新聞報道”，例如辨別來源和作者，注明出處，以及标記意見和評論。
“作為新聞的知情消費者，今天比以往更具挑戰性，”Bing Spotlight團隊寫道。“我們的目标是将有影響力的事件展示出更全面的資訊，無論政治到商業再到重大災難，等等。”
在Google推出針對智能手機改版的谷歌新聞應用程式大約三個月後，Bing Spotlight就出現了。與Bing Spotlight一樣，全新改版的谷歌新聞能夠智能地閱讀文章，播客，視訊和社交媒體文章，并利用AI來對特定的新聞事件做事實查驗和重點突出。
原文
Bing Spotlight uses AI
to highlight developing news stories
There's an avalanche of news these days, and Microsoft wants to help make sense of it all. It today announced Bing Spotlight, an artificially intelligent news aggregator that provides an overview of developing stories in Bing search results.
Bing Spotlight doesn't just surface headlines. It shows a blow-by-blow timeline of events from "various perspectives,"plus relevant social media posts and links to in-depth coverage.
"Users' trust in the news we present is of the utmost importance to Bing," the Bing team wrote, "and we're committed to providing a well-rounded view of news from diverse, quality sources."
It's available on Bing desktop and mobile web in the U.S. A spokesperson told VentureBeat via email that Bing Spotlight is an "evolving feature," and that the team will evaluate options based on feedback.
Bing Spotlight spots trending topics with the help of deep learning algorithms that ingest millions of search queries and news articles every day. Leaning on a web graph of "hundreds of millions" of websites, it factors in signals such as browser logs, the number of publishers covering a story, and how prominently each publisher featured their respective stories on their sites.
Articles have to be "original, readable, newsworthy, and transparent" before they're considered for a top spot, and must demonstrate "sound journalistic practices" such as identify sources and authors, giving attribution, and labeling opinion and commentary.
"Being an informed consumer of the news is more challenging today than it used to be,"the team wrote. "Our goal is to provide broader context for impactful stories, from politics to business to major disasters, and much more."
Bing Spotlight comes roughly three months after Google unveiled a revamped Google News app for smartphones. Like Bing Spotlight, the new and improved Google News intelligently reads articles, podcasts, videos, and social media posts, and leverages AI to fact-check and highlight items of particular note
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