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

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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.

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      IUI '07: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
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