Capturing the User's Reading Context for Tailoring Summaries

  • Authors:
  • Cécile Paris;Stephen Wan

  • Affiliations:
  • CSIRO ICT Centre, North Ryde, Australia NSW 1670;CSIRO ICT Centre, North Ryde, Australia NSW 1670

  • Venue:
  • UMAP '09 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization: formerly UM and AH
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The web has become a major source of information to learn about a topic. With the continuous growth of information and its high connectivity, it is hard to follow only the links that are relevant and not to get lost in hyperspace. Our aim is to support people who read documents in a highly connected information space, helping them remain on focus. Our contextually-aware in-browser text summarisation tool, IBES, does this by capturing users' current interests and providing users with contextualised summaries of linked documents, to help them decide whether the link is worth following.