Margin Call: an Accessible Web-based Text Viewer with Generated Paragraph Summaries in the Margin
Naba Rizvi, Sebastian Gehrmann, Lidan Wang, Franck Dernoncourt
Abstract
We present Margin Call, a web-based text viewer that automatically generates short summaries for each paragraph of the text and displays the summaries in the margin of the text next to the corresponding paragraph. On the back-end, the summarizer first identifies the most important sentence for each paragraph in the text file uploaded by the user. The selected sentence is then automatically compressed to produce the short summary. The resulting summary is a few words long. The displayed summaries can help the user understand and retrieve information faster from the text, while increasing the retention of information.- Anthology ID:
- W19-8632
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
- Month:
- October–November
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Tokyo, Japan
- Editors:
- Kees van Deemter, Chenghua Lin, Hiroya Takamura
- Venue:
- INLG
- SIG:
- SIGGEN
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 244–246
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-8632
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-8632
- Cite (ACL):
- Naba Rizvi, Sebastian Gehrmann, Lidan Wang, and Franck Dernoncourt. 2019. Margin Call: an Accessible Web-based Text Viewer with Generated Paragraph Summaries in the Margin. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 244–246, Tokyo, Japan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Margin Call: an Accessible Web-based Text Viewer with Generated Paragraph Summaries in the Margin (Rizvi et al., INLG 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/W19-8632.pdf