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• Summaries vary dramatically in terms of form, content, or purpose. It
is not yet well understood what evaluation techniques are appropriate
in which circumstances.
We have now started to address some of these issues, specifically gold stan-
dard collection and evaluation of personalized summaries of Twitter timelines
[577].
10.10 Conclusion
This chapter introduced the task of UGC summarization, discussing its
potential usefulness and relevance as an information filtering technique to ad-
dress UGC information overload. In addition, work in this area is extremely
well motivated by a myriad of potential applications, from ...