Capturing user reading behaviors for personalized document summarization

  • Authors:
  • Hao Jiang;Songhua Xu;Francis Chi-Moon Lau

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong;Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA;The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We propose a new personalized document summarization method that observes a user's personal reading preferences. These preferences are inferred from the user's reading behaviors, including facial expressions, gaze positions, and reading durations that were captured during the user's past reading activities. We compare the performance of our algorithm with that of a few peer algorithms and software packages. The results of our comparative study show that our algorithm can produce more superior personalized document summaries than all the other methods in that the summaries generated by our algorithm can better satisfy a user's personal preferences.