OCELOT: A System for Summarizing Web Pages

OCELOT: A System for Summarizing Web Pages- By Adam L. Berger, Carnegie Mellon University, and Vibhu O. Mittal, Just Research, Pittsburgh, USA. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, 2000. Probabilistic models are used to select and order words into a gist. The paper describes a technique for learning these models automatically from a collection of human-summarized web pages, the authors used ODP data for this purpose.