A Method for Automatically Generating a Mediatory Summary to Verify Credibility of Information on the Web

In this paper, we propose a method for mediatory summarization, which is a novel technique for facilitating users' assessments of the credibility of information on the Web. A mediatory summary is generated by extracting a passage from Web documents; this summary is generated on the basis of its relevance to a given query, fairness, and density of keywords, which are features of the summaries constructed to determine the credibility of information on the Web. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the generated mediatory summary in comparison with the summaries of Web documents produced by Web search engines.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Hideyuki Shibuki, Takahiro Nagai, Masahiro Nakano, Rintaro Miyazaki, Madoka Ishioroshi, Tatsunori Mori
• Keywords: COLING 2010, Computational Linguistics, Generated Mediatory Summary, Mediatory Summary, Web Documents