Enhanced web document summarization using hyperlinks

This paper addresses the issue of Web document summarization. As textual content of Web documents is often scarce or irrelevant and existing summarization techniques are based on it, many Web pages and websites cannot be suitably summarized. We consider the context of a Web document by the textual content of all the documents linking to it. To summarize a target Web document, a context-based summarizer has to perform a preprocessing task, during which it will be decided which pieces of information in the source documents are relevant to the content of the target. Then a context-based summarizer faces two issues: first, the selected elements may partially deal with the topic of the target, second they may be related to the target and yet not contain any clues about the content of the target. In this paper we put forward two new summarization by context algorithms. The first one uses both the content and the context of the document and the second one is based only on the elements of t...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: HT
• Authors: Jean-Yves Delort, Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Maria Rifqi
• Keywords: Context-based Summarizer, HT 2003, Textual Content, Web Document