• DOI:10.1145/2187836.2187957
Corpus ID: 1673937

Trains of thought: generating information maps

@inproceedings{Shahaf2012TrainsOT,
  title={Trains of thought: generating information maps},
  author={Dafna Shahaf and Carlos Guestrin and E. Horvitz},
  booktitle={WWW},
  year={2012}
}

Dafna Shahaf, Carlos Guestrin, E. Horvitz

Published in WWW 2012

Computer Science

When information is abundant, it becomes increasingly difficult to fit nuggets of knowledge into a single coherent picture. Complex stories spaghetti into branches, side stories, and intertwining narratives. In order to explore these stories, one needs a map to navigate unfamiliar territory. We propose a methodology for creating structured summaries of information, which we call metro maps. Our proposed algorithm generates a concise structured set of documents maximizing coverage of salient… CONTINUE READING

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