Comments-oriented blog summarization by sentence extraction

Meishan Hu, Aixin Sun, Ee-Peng Lim
2007 Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management - CIKM '07  
Much existing research on blogs focused on posts only, ignoring their comments. Our user study conducted on summarizing blog posts, however, showed that reading comments does change one's understanding about blog posts. In this research, we aim to extract representative sentences from a blog post that best represent the topics discussed among its comments. The proposed solution first derives representative words from comments and then selects sentences containing representative words. The
more » ... entativeness of words is measured using ReQuT (i.e., Reader, Quotation, and Topic). Evaluated on human labeled sentences, ReQuT together with summation-based sentence selection showed promising results.
doi:10.1145/1321440.1321571 dblp:conf/cikm/HuSL07 fatcat:qpy7n3uyknhy7c6zprbwlczerm