Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches

  • Authors:
  • Dawn J. Lawrie;W. Bruce Croft

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA;University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Hierarchies provide a means of organizing, summarizing and accessing information. We describe a method for automatically generating hierarchies from small collections of text, and then apply this technique to summarizing the documents retrieved by a search engine.