Capturing the User's Reading Context for Tailoring Summaries

The web has become a major source of information to learn about a topic. With the continuous growth of information and its high connectivity, it is hard to follow only the links that are relevant and not to get lost in hyperspace. Our aim is to support people who read documents in a highly connected information space, helping them remain on focus. Our contextually-aware inbrowser text summarisation tool, IBES, does this by capturing users’ current interests and providing users with contextualised summaries of linked documents, to help them decide whether the link is worth following.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: UM
• Authors: Cécile Paris, Stephen Wan
• Keywords: Continuous Growth, Major Source, Programming Languages, Text Summarisation Tool, UM 2009