TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to develop a new summarisation approach, namely structure‐preserving and query‐biased summarisation, to improve the effectiveness of web searching. During web searching, one aid for users is the document summaries provided in the search results. However, the summaries provided by current search engines have limitations in directing users to relevant documents.Design/methodology/approach– The proposed system consists of two stages: document structure analysis and summarisation. In the first stage, a rule‐based approach is used to identify the sectional hierarchies of web documents. In the second stage, query‐biased summaries are created, making use of document structure both in the summarisation process and in the output summaries.Findings– In structural processing, about 70 per cent accuracy in identifying document sectional hierarchies is obtained. The summarisation method is tested on a task‐based evaluation method using English and Turkish document collections. The results show that the proposed method is a significant improvement over both unstructured query‐biased summaries and Google snippets in terms of f‐measure.Practical implications– The proposed summarisation system can be incorporated into search engines. The structural processing technique also has applications in other information systems, such as browsing, outlining and indexing documents.Originality/value– In the literature on summarisation, the effects of query‐biased techniques and document structure are considered in only a few works and are researched separately. The research reported here differs from traditional approaches by combining these two aspects in a coherent framework. The work is also the first automatic summarisation study for Turkish targeting web search.
VL  - 33
IS  - 4
SN  - 1468-4527
DO  - 10.1108/14684520910985684
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14684520910985684
AU  - Canan Pembe F.
AU  - Güngör Tunga
PY  - 2009
Y1  - 2009/01/01
TI  - Structure‐preserving and query‐biased document summarisation for web searching
T2  - Online Information Review
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 696
EP  - 719
Y2  - 2024/05/11
ER  -