Incremental Extractive Opinion Summarization Using Cover Trees

arXiv:2401.08047v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Extractive opinion summarization involves automatically producing a summary of text about an entity (e.g., a product's reviews) by extracting representative sentences that capture prevalent opinions in the review set. Typically, in online marketplaces user reviews accumulate over time, and opinion summaries need to be updated periodically to provide customers with up-to-date information. In this work, we study the task of extractive opinion summarization in an incremental setting, where the underlying review set evolves over time. …

abstract arxiv cs.cl cs.lg incremental marketplaces opinion opinions product review reviews set summarization summary text trees type