creators_name: Lu, Yue
creators_name: Zhai, ChengXiang
creators_name: Sundaresan, Neel
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2009-04-06 19:08:49
lastmod: 2009-04-14 04:37:05
metadata_visibility: show
title: Rated Aspect Summarization of Short Comments
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
abstract: Web 2.0 technologies have enabled more and more people to freely comment on different kinds of entities (e.g. sellers, products, services). The large scale of information poses the need and challenge of automatic summarization. In many cases, each of the user-generated short comments comes with an overall rating. In this paper, we study the problem of generating a “rated aspect summary” of short comments, which is a decomposed view of the overall ratings for the major aspects so that a user could gain different perspectives towards the target entity. We formally define the problem and decompose the solution into three steps. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our methods by using eBay sellers’ feedback comments. We also quantitatively evaluate each step of our methods and study how well human agree on such a summarization task. The proposed methods are quite general and can be used to generate rated aspect summary automatically given any collection of short comments each associated with an overall rating.
date: 2009-04
pagerange: 131-131
event_title: 18th International World Wide Web Conference
event_location: Madrid, Spain
event_dates: April 20th-24th, 2009
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
citation: Lu, Yue <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Lu=3AYue=3A=3A.html> and Zhai, ChengXiang <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Zhai=3AChengXiang=3A=3A.html> and Sundaresan, Neel <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Sundaresan=3ANeel=3A=3A.html> (2009) Rated Aspect Summarization of Short Comments. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain.
document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/14/1/p131.pdf