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How Dávka Works
Dávka checks articles published from numerous Slovak news sources, compiles related stories together, generates a summary of each story, and then translates everything to English. We do our best to remove duplicate stories, but this is a continuing work in progress.
Stories on category pages are sorted simply by publish date/time, newest to oldest. The main page is sorted by a calculated importance score, with added functionality to vary the topic categories, giving readers a good sense of the breadth of news and what is important in Slovakia.
What is the Importance Score?
The importance score determines how prominently a story appears on the main page. It is calculated using several factors:
- Base score: Every story starts with 10 points
- Multiple sources: +10 points for each additional news source covering the same story
- Breaking/urgent news: +20 points for stories with urgent keywords (accidents, emergencies, deaths)
- Exclusive content: +15 points for stories marked as exclusive by the source
- Political/corruption topics: +15 points for stories involving key political figures or corruption
- AI significance rating: 0-45 bonus points based on our AI assessment of story significance to the Slovak public
This means a major political story covered by multiple sources with breaking news elements can score significantly higher than a routine local update, ensuring the most newsworthy content rises to the top.
Pipeline Run Reports
Below are the results from our automated news pipeline runs. Each run fetches articles from Slovak news sources, groups related stories, and generates English summaries.