Automatically editing book reviews on the web

Authors:
Koji Eguchi;Shigeki Sugita
Affiliations:
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan;Hokkaido University Library, Sapporo, Japan
Venue:
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Web information and data management
Year:
2001

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Abstract

A large amount of book information lies scattered on the Web. It is written in non-standard forms, as is other Web information, and this imposes a heavy load on a user browsing search results. We propose an automatic editing method that assists users to retrieve book information, especially book reviews scattered on the Web. Our proposed system retrieves the bibliographic information of a user-specified book using a library catalog database. Using this, it retrieves book reviews on the Web, which are then automatically edited using some heuristic rules for segment extraction, filtering and sorting according to a semantic likelihood of their being book reviews, and are finally presented in tables to the users. We implemented a prototype system and performed a preliminary evaluation of its effectiveness by experiment.