From social bookmarking to social summarization: an experiment in community-based summary generation

  • Authors:
  • Oisin Boydell;Barry Smyth

  • Affiliations:
  • University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin;University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We describe a novel document summarization technique that uses informational cues, such as social bookmarks or search queries, as the basis for summary construction by leveraging the snippet-generation capabilities of standard search engines. A comprehensive evaluation demonstrates how the social summarization technique can generate summaries that are of significantly higher quality that those produced by a number of leading alternatives.