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<journal-id>1405-5546</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Computación y Sistemas]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Comp. y Sist.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1405-5546</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación en Computación]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1405-55462017000400703</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.13053/cys-21-4-2848</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[A Supervised Method to Predict the Popularity of News Articles]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Balali]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ali]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Asadpour]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Masoud]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Faili]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Hesham]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,University of Tehran  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Tehran ]]></addr-line>
<country>Iran</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2017</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>21</volume>
<numero>4</numero>
<fpage>703</fpage>
<lpage>716</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1405-55462017000400703&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1405-55462017000400703&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1405-55462017000400703&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: In this study, we identify the features of an article that encourage people to leave a comment for it. The volume of the received comments for a news article shows its importance. It also indirectly indicates the amount of influence a news article has on the public. Leaving comment on a news article indicates not only the visitor has read the article but also the article has been important to him/her. We propose a machine learning approach to predict the volume of comments using the information that is extracted about the users&#8217; activities on the web pages of news agencies. In order to evaluate the proposed method, several experiments were performed. The results reveal salient improvement in comparison with the baseline methods.]]></p></abstract>
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