Guided Summarization

This 2008 ECIR Industry Day presentation outlines guided summarization, a software service by Endeca designed to help users explore and analyze complex information effectively. It emphasizes the software's ability to provide contextual summaries and refine queries, addressing the limitations of traditional search methods in various domains, including e-commerce and knowledge management. Guided summarization facilitates user-data interaction, promoting exploration and discovery of insights.

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1. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Guided Summarization Daniel Tunkelang Chief Scientist, Endeca Industry Day
2. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 overview • Who is Endeca? • What is guided summarization? • Why should you care?
3. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 Who is Endeca? • Software to help people explore, analyze, and understand complex information, guiding them to unexpected insights and better decisions. • 500+ customers – ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox, Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford, Hyatt, IBM, John Deere, Library of Congress, Texas Instruments, Wal-Mart • $108M revenue in 2007.
4. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 some of our customers
5. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 some European customers
6. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 6 What is guided summarization? • Set retrieval that responds to queries with – an overview of the user's current context. – an organized set of options for incremental exploration. • Contextual summaries of document sets optimize system’s communication with user. • Query refinement options optimize user’s communication with system.
7. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 7 Why should you care?
8. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 8 why you should care • Search has hit a wall. • Guided summarization succeeds where search fails. • Guided summarization is more than faceted search.
9. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 9 Search has hit a wall.
10. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 10 search hits a wall in ecommerce
11. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 11 search hits a wall in KM Current Search: it outsourcing
12. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 search even hits a wall on the web Results 1-10 out of about 344,000,000 for ir
13. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 13 Guided summarization succeeds where search fails.
14. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 14 guided summarization for ecommerce Matching Categories include: Appliances > Small Appliances > Irons & Steamers Appliances > Small Appliances > Microwaves & Steamers Bath > Sauna & Spas > Steamers Kitchen > Bakeware & Cookware > Cookware > Open Stock Pots > Double Boilers & Steamers Kitchen > Small Appliances > Steamers
15. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 15 guided summarization for KM
16. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 16 Guided summarization is more than faceted search.
17. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 17 facets 101
18. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 18 showing the right facets: microwaves vs.
19. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 19 showing the right facets: ceiling fans
20. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 20 traditional topic taxonomy
21. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 21 dynamic topic facet Subject Electronic data processing (1002) Distributed processing (937) Parallel processing (619) Computer networks (562) Fault-tolerant-computing (365) Show more… Subject Artificial intelligence (227) High performance computing (244) Automatic theorem proving (9) History (11) Client/server computing (185) Information technology (145) Computer algorithms (110) Java (77) Computer architecture (162) Law and legislation (70) Computer networks (552) Logic, Symbolic and mathematical (16) Computer programs (139) Mathematics (70) Computer security (151) Mobile communication systems (54) Computer software (253) Operating systems (87) Computers (124) Parallel processing (619) Database management (277) Research (83) Distributed processing (937) Software engineering (197) Electronic data processing (1002) Supercomputers (139) Electronic digital computers (148) Web databases (54) Fault-tolerant computing (365) Wireless communication systems (97)
22. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 22 cutting through facets to show the big picture Search: storage
23. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 23 summarization: more than search and browse
24. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 24 guided summarization – a summary Guided summarization enables a dialog between the user and the data, enabling exploration and discovery.
25. © 2008 Endeca Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. 25 thank you Questions?