Query-biased web page summarisation: a task-oriented evaluation

  • Authors:
  • Ryen White;Joemon M. Jose;Ian Ruthven

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland;Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland;Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present a system that offers a new way of assessing web document relevance and new approach to the web-based evaluation of such a system. Provisionally named WebDocSum, the system is a query-biased web page summariser that aims to provide an alternative to the short, irrelevant abstracts typical of many web search result lists. Based on an initial evaluation the system appears to be more useful in helping users gauge document relevance than the traditional ranked titles/abstracts approach.