Efficient Web Browsing on Handheld Devices Using Page and Form Summarization

摘要

We present a design and implementation for displaying and manipulating HTML pages on small handheld devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), or cellular phones. We introduce meth- ods for summarizing parts of Web pages and HTML forms. Each Web page is broken into text units that can each be hidden, partially displayed, made fully visible, or summarized. A variety of meth- ods are introduced that summarize the text units. In addition, HTML forms are also summarized by displaying just the text labels that prompt the use for input.