18 2. WHAT NEWS CONTENT TELLS
numeric
binary
Feature Description Type
NumWords Number of words
NumCap Number of upper case words (excluding acronyms: words with less
than fi ve characters)
N
NumAcronym Number of acronyms (upper case words with less than fi ve characters) N
Is,NumExclm Presence/Number of exclamation marks B/N
Is,NumQues Presence/Number of question marks B/N
IsStartNum
HasNumber
Whether the title starts with a number B
HasNumber Whether the title contains a number (set only if the title doesn’t start
with a number)
B
IsSuperlative Presence of superlative adverbs and adjectives (POS tags RBS, JJS) B
Is,NumQuote Presence/Number of quoted words (used “,’,‘; excluded ’m, ’re, ’ve, ’d, ’s,
s’)
B/N
IsStart5W1H Whether the title starts with 5W1H words (what, why, when, who,
which, how)
B
Is,NumNeg Presence/Number of negative sentiment words B/N
RIXand LIX indices RIX D LW=S LIX D W =S C
.100LW/=W W LW
S
Formality measure (fmeasure)
.nounfreq C adjectivefreq C prepositionfreq C
articlefreq pronounfreq verbfreq adverbfreq interjectionfreq C 100/=2
2.3.3 NEWS QUALITY STYLES