原创译文 | 微软发布Bing Spotlight，检索新闻不再眼花缭乱

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导读：微软今日发布了一个人工智能的新闻聚合器Bing Spotlight，该新闻聚合器能够在Bing搜索结果中高亮突出重点新闻报道。Bing Spotlight不只是提供表面的头条新闻，还能够展示出从“各种角度”看事件的详细时间表，以及相关的社交媒体帖子和深入报道的链接。（文末更多往期译文推荐）

如今新闻媒体泛滥，微软为了提供理清新闻脉络的服务，今日发布了新产品，一个人工智能的新闻聚合器Bing Spotlight，该产品可以提供在Bing搜索结果中新闻事件发展的追溯过程。

Bing Spotlight不只是表面的头条新闻。它还能够展示从“各种角度”看事件的详细时间表，以及相关的社交媒体帖子和深入报道的链接。

“用户能够信任我们提供的新闻，对Bing（必应）来说至关重要，”Bing团队写道，“我们致力于给用户提供来自不同质量来源的全面新闻视频。”

Bing Spotlight可以在美国的Bing桌面和移动网络上使用。发言人通过电子邮件表示，Bing Spotlight是一个“持续开发的功能”，团队将根据用户反馈，评估其功能选项。

Bing Spotlight的深度学习算法基于每天数百万个搜索查询和新闻文章，由此来高亮突出趋势性的话题。算法由“数亿”网站的网络图表训练，涉及读取浏览器日志，报道故事的出版商数量以及每个出版商在其网站上展示各自故事的重要性等信号。

文章必须是“原创的，可读的，有新闻价值的和透明的”，才能在最佳位置标记，并且文章必须证明其是“合理的新闻报道”，例如标识来源和作者，注明出处，以及标记意见和评论。

“作为新闻的知情消费者，今天比以往更具挑战性，”Bing Spotlight团队写道。“我们的目标是将有影响力的事件展示出更全面的信息，无论政治到商业再到重大灾难，等等。”

在Google推出针对智能手机改版的谷歌新闻应用程序大约三个月后，Bing Spotlight就出现了。与Bing Spotlight一样，全新改版的谷歌新闻能够智能地阅读文章，播客，视频和社交媒体帖子，并利用AI来对特定的新闻事件做事实查验和重点突出。

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

文章编辑：小雨