4 research outputs found
Automatic summarization of online debates
Debate summarization is one of the novel and challenging research areas in automatic text summarization which has been largely unexplored. In this paper, we develop a debate summarization pipeline to summarize key topics which are discussed or argued in the two opposing sides of online debates. We view that the generation of debate summaries can be achieved by clustering, cluster labeling, and visualization. In our work, we investigate two different clustering approaches for the generation of the summaries. In the first approach, we generate the summaries by applying purely term-based clustering and cluster labeling. The second approach makes use of X-means for clustering and Mutual Information for labeling the clusters. Both approaches are driven by ontologies. We visualize the results using bar charts. We think that our results are a smooth entry for users aiming to receive the first impression about what is discussed within a debate topic containing waste number of argumentations
Understanding Human Preferences for Summary Designs in Online Debates Domain
Research on automatic text summarization has
primarily focused on summarizing news, web pages, scientific
papers, etc. While in some of these text genres, it is intuitively
clear what constitutes a good summary, the issue is much less
clear cut in social media scenarios like online debates, product
reviews, etc., where summaries can be presented in many ways.
As yet, there is no analysis about which summary representation
is favored by readers. In this work, we empirically analyze
this question and elicit readers’ preferences for the different
designs of summaries for online debates. Seven possible summary
designs in total were presented to 60 participants via an online
study. Participants were asked to read and assign preference
scores to each summary design. The results indicated that the
combination of Chart Summary and Side-By-Side Summary is
the most preferred summary design. This finding is important for
future work in automatic text summarization of online debates