Adaptive summaries: a personalized concept-based summarization approach by learning from users’ feedback

Samira Ghodratnama*, Mehrdad Zakershahrak, Fariborz Sobhanmanesh

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Exploring the tremendous amount of data efficiently to make a decision, similar to answering a complicated question, is challenging with many real-world application scenarios. In this context, automatic summarization has substantial importance as it will provide the foundation for big data analytic. Traditional summarization approaches optimize the system to produce a short static summary that fits all users that do not consider the subjectivity aspect of summarization, i.e., what is deemed valuable for different users, making these approaches impractical in real-world use cases. This paper proposes an interactive concept-based summarization model, called Adaptive Summaries, that helps users make their desired summary instead of producing a single inflexible summary. The system learns from users’ provided information gradually while interacting with the system by giving feedback in an iterative loop. Users can choose either reject or accept action for selecting a concept being included in the summary with the importance of that concept from users’ perspectives and confidence level of their feedback. The proposed approach can guarantee interactive speed to keep the user engaged in the process. Furthermore, it eliminates the need for reference summaries, which is a challenging issue for summarization tasks. Evaluations show that Adaptive Summaries helps users make high-quality summaries based on their preferences by maximizing the user-desired content in the generated summaries.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationService-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2020 Workshops
Subtitle of host publicationAIOps, CFTIC, STRAPS, AI-PA, AI-IOTS, and Satellite Events Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 14–17, 2020: Proceedings
EditorsHakim Hacid, Fatma Outay, Hye-young Paik, Amira Alloum, Marinella Petrocchi, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Amin Beheshti, Xumin Liu, Abderrahmane Maaradji
Place of PublicationCham, Switzerland
PublisherSpringer, Springer Nature
Pages281-293
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9783030763527
ISBN (Print)9783030763510
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
EventAIOps, CFTIC, STRAPS, AI-PA, AI-IOTS, and Satellite Events held in conjunction with 18th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 14 Dec 202017 Dec 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12632
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceAIOps, CFTIC, STRAPS, AI-PA, AI-IOTS, and Satellite Events held in conjunction with 18th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period14/12/2017/12/20

Keywords

  • Adaptive summaries
  • Interactive summarization
  • Multi-document summarization
  • Personalized summaries
  • Preference-based summaries

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