PAWS Meeting 10-05-07

The IUI '07 paper "From social bookmarking to social summarization: an experiment in community-based summary generation" by Oisin Boydell and Barry Smyth
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1216295.1216311
presented by Sharon.

Nice paper. Several interesting ideas.
Authors try to generate web-page summaries based on the social tags from del.icio.us
Tags and web-pages themselves are used as input queries for the Lucene snipet generator. The resulting snipets are analyzed and combined to generate a summary of a page.
Four experiment have been done:
1st Experiment compared the closeness of socially-generated summaries to the summaries provided by people on del.icio.us.
2nd experiment explored the relation between the quality and the length of social summaries
3d experiment analyzed how the quality of a summary would depend on the number of tags available for the page
finally, in the fourth experiment authors tried to generate the community-focused social summaries.