The networkability and ubiquity of hand-held devices makes them ideally positioned to mediate access to on-line news. Existing frameworks for news delivery to hand-helds typically involve transcoding methods by remote proxies layered over generic summarisation techniques. We argue that such environments, characterised by both analysis and presentation being done on a server, fail to account for essential features of the news delivery client. This work addresses two questions in this context: the specialised ‘transcoding’ strategy for a well-defined sub-type of content, namely that of primarily text-based news documents, and the emergence of a ‘summary-for-a-hand-held’ genre,
which exploits advanced linguistic analysis to meet the particular requirements of information seeking by news skimming on hand-helds. Directly related is the issue of how novel methods for deriving context and profile sensitive document abstractions interact with novel metaphors for mediating these abstractions according to the particulars of their use.
By: Branimir K. Boguraev, Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Calvin B. Swart
Published in: RC22086 in 2001
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