Information access in complex, poorly structured information spaces
CHI '91 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cyberspace 2000: dealing with information overload
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A Web navigation tool for the blind
Assets '98 Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Summarizing text documents: sentence selection and evaluation metrics
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
OCELOT: a system for summarizing Web pages
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Extracting sentence segments for text summarization: a machine learning approach
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Automatically summarising Web sites: is there a way around it?
Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Introduction to the special issue on summarization
Computational Linguistics - Summarization
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To parse or not to parse: relation-driven text skimming
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Accurate unlexicalized parsing
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Gist summaries for visually impaired surfers
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Csurf: a context-driven non-visual web-browser
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
The HearSay non-visual web browser
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A statistical approach to automatic speech summarization
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
WebinSitu: a comparative analysis of blind and sighted browsing behavior
Proceedings of the 9th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
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Proceedings of the 10th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Graph-based keyword extraction for single-document summarization
MMIES '08 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multi-source Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization
The WEKA data mining software: an update
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Hearsay: a new generation context-driven multi-modal assistive web browser
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More than meets the eye: a survey of screen-reader browsing strategies
Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
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UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Assistive web browsing with touch interfaces
Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
LIBSVM: A library for support vector machines
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
Why read if you can skim: towards enabling faster screen reading
Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility
Non-visual skimming on touch-screen devices
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Using simultaneous audio sources to speed-up blind people's web scanning
Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility
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In our information-driven web-based society, we are all gradually falling ""victims"" to information overload [5].However, while sighted people are finding ways to sift through information faster, Internet users who are blind are experiencing an even greater information overload. These people access computers and Internet using screen-reader software, which reads the information on a computer screen sequentially using computer-generated speech. While sighted people can learn how to quickly glance over the headlines and news articles online to get the gist of information, people who are blind have to use keyboard shortcuts to listen through the content narrated by a serial audio interface. This interface does not give them an opportunity to know what content to skip and what to listen to. So, they either listen to all of the content or listen to the first part of each sentence or paragraph before they skip to the next one. In this paper, we propose an automated approach to facilitate non-visual skimming of web pages. We describe the underlying algorithm, outline a non-visual skimming interface, and report on the results of automated experiments, as well as on our user study with 23 screen-reader users. The results of the experiments suggest that we have been moderately successful in designing a viable algorithm for automatic summarization that could be used for non-visual skimming. In our user studies, we confirmed that people who are blind could read and search through online articles faster and were able to understand and remember most of what they have read with our skimming system. Finally, all 23 participants expressed genuine interest in using non-visual skimming in the future.