Automatic summarization of search engine hit lists
Dragomir Radev, Weiguo Fan · 2000
We present our work on open-domain multi-document summarization in the framework of Web search. Our system, SNS (pronounced "essence"), retrieves documents related to an unrestricted user query and summarizes a subset of them as selected by the user. We present a task-based extrinsic evaluation of the quality of the produced multi-document summaries. The evaluation results show that summarization quality is relatively high and does help improve the reading speed and judge the relevance of the retrieved URLs.