Summarization and Personal Information Management

1. Summarization and Personal Information Management Carolyn Penstein Rosé Language Technologies Institute/ Human-Computer Interaction Institute

2. Announcements • Questions? • Homework 2 reminder • Discussion about Project • Plan for Today • Hyland Chapter

3. Homework Two • Taking into account the feedback you received on assignment 1, refine the focus of your term project • State what is the problem you are trying to solve now • Assignment 2 focuses on Rhetorical Analysis • Find some data to work with – for the assignment you’ll need 3 examples of what you are trying to summarize. This can be 3 documents or 3 collections of documents • Design a coding scheme like Hyland did and do a rhetorical analysis of your data. If you are working on 3 collections of documents, just do a sampling. You don’t have to analyze the whole of 3 collections. • Now, based on your rhetorical analysis, “generate” by hand the summary you think you should get from your 3 examples • Now argue why you think this summary should “solve” the problem you set out to solve

4. Project Time Line • Week 6: This week • Week 7: Homework 2 due: Discourse Analysis • Week 8: Homework 3 due: Using SIDE • Week 9 : Spring Break [finalize project plan] • Weeks 10-16 Project Work • Week 16: Project Due

5. Project Scope • Pick an emphasis: design, data analysis, implementation • Project work should be on the scope of about 2 homework assignments in terms of amount of work • Report should review some literature, present your design, analysis, and implementation, with emphasis on the part of the problem you chose to focus on • You should discuss how you would evaluate your work, but an actual evaluation might not be feasible

6. Example Project Idea

7. Literature Reviews as Summary Templates • Theses studies, to ensure that low-literacy users understand the content and functionalities of an application interface, employ different means of communication to replace or complement an interface text content [28]. Among alternative means to provide an accessible content, these stand out: use of a voice interface for data input and output [23]; simplification of text content [3]; graphic representation of information and content [20]; numbers and graphic symbols [22]; and linearization of navigation structures [22].

8. Literature Reviews as Summary Templates • Contexts of automatic content adaptation and availability on the Web imply technological restrictions, according to some of the principles described earlier. For instance: availability of graphic representations [5] and use of numerical symbols [11] [22].

9. What would be your next steps if you chose… • Design option… • Analysis option… • Implementation option… • Think of next steps in terms of literature review, data gathering, data preparation, resource gathering…

10. More Discourse Analysis Problem Human Behavior Solution Design Technology Today’s focus Problem?

11. Hyland Chapter

12. Always know what question you are asking!!!

13. According to Hyland,What do citations tell us?

14. Summary versus Generalization

15. Summary versus Generalization * What about our template examples?

16. Types of Citations * Note that a choice is made from each. These are not meant to be mutually exclusive. Before we look at the tables, what do you think you would do with these categories in the design of a summary?

17. ? What is different between the “hard sciences” and the “soft sciences”?

18. What is different between the “hard sciences” and the “soft sciences”?

19. What do you see?Would your idea work?

20. What do you see?Would your idea work?

21. What is communicated by citations that Hyland misses?

22. What are additional types of coding you might do on citations?

23. Questions?