Automatic story summarization from clustered messages

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990065-B2
Application number	US-201113004083-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 11, 2011
Priority date	Jan 11, 2011
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

A set of stories may be related in a set of messages (e.g., news articles, weblog posts, or messages exchanged in a social network). Presented herein are techniques for automatically generating a summary of respective stories that may be used as a headline or title. These techniques involve identifying the entities referenced in each message, clustering the messages based on similarly referenced entities to generate a cluster of messages associated with each story, and identifying facts of the story that appear in many of the messages, which may be used to generate a perspective-independent summary of the story. Additionally, metadata regarding each message may be detected (e.g., the entities involved in each story, a meta-story of the story, and the perspective of the author in relating the story), and may be used to fulfill requests to filter the set of stories and/or messages based on these criteria.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of presenting summaries of stories respectively associated with at least one message on a computer having a processor, the method comprising:
executing on the processor instructions configured to:
for respective messages, identify at least one entity involved in the message;
cluster the messages according to the at least one entity identified in the respective messages to identify, for a story, a message cluster comprising at least two messages t…

Assignees

• Raskino David Arthur
• Maclaurin Matthew Bret
• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Raskino David Arthur
• Maclaurin Matthew Bret

Classifications

• G06F16/345 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30719 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic