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Applications of Machine SummarizationMichael Yue

CS Undergrad, Year 428th March 2014

michaelyue@nus.edu.sg

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1. Background

• Team working on scientific document summarization project

• Min says, “how can we product-ivize this and make it useful?”

2. Motivation

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Get indicative feedback from researchers (i.e. the wonderful people in this room) to push the project forward.

Michael flashes a few

slides

Answer a poll using your

phone

Loop until we’re out of

slides

(don’t worry, there won’t be open ended questions)

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3. Participation setup

1. Take out your smartphone2. Launch browser3. Go to “pollev.com/myue”4. Upon loading the page, don’t press anything

yet!

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4. Idea

• Summaries are for getting a quick understanding of a larger piece of text– Scientific summaries might help expedite the

research process– Pre-process research papers into summaries, host

them & provide a REST endpoint– Integrate this into the research work-flow– Our target: Google Scholar

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“Stock” Google Scholar

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“Stock” Google Scholar

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Maximize space usage by adding content

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Machine summary / Structured abstract

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Alternatively, browser extension (pop-up)

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Less is more - even more minimalistic?

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Customization – choosing what you want to see

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Poll time!Don’t think too hard, the first reply that comes to mind is usually the one we want. Also, don’t be affected by

what other people choose.

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In-browser VS Pop-up

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In-browser VS Pop-up

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Display kw in context information in side-pane

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Display kw in context information in side-pane

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Machine Summary only, or more?

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Is a machine summary useful?

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Is a structured abstract useful?

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Customization – choosing what you want to see

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ScholarChat?!

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I’m done, thanks!