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Digesting virtual "geek" culture: the summarization of technical internet relay chats

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ACL '05: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 298 - 305

https://doi.org/10.3115/1219840.1219877

Published: 25 June 2005 Publication History

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This paper describes a summarization system for technical chats and emails on the Linux kernel. To reflect the complexity and sophistication of the discussions, they are clustered according to subtopic structure on the sub-message level, and immediate responding pairs are identified through machine learning methods. A resulting summary consists of one or more mini-summaries, each on a subtopic from the discussion.

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Published: 25 June 2005

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