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Applications of Machine SummarizationMichael Yue
CS Undergrad, Year 428th March 2014
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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!
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