From Social Bookmarking to Social Summarization: An Experiment in Community-Based Summary Generation

摘要

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.