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 and Zhai, ChengXiang and Sundaresan, Neel (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