Using textual summaries to describe a set of products

Kittipitch Kuptavanich

doi:10.1145/3240323.3240328

Using textual summaries to describe a set of products

Kittipitch Kuptavanich

School of Natural & Computing Sciences

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Abstract

When customers are faced with the task of making a purchase in an unfamiliar product domain, it might be useful to provide them with an overview of the product set to help them understand what they can expect. In this paper we present and evaluate a method to summarise sets of products in natural language, focusing on the price range, common product features across the set, and product features that impact on price. In our study, participants reported that they found our summaries useful, but we found no evidence that the summaries influenced the selections made by participants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	RecSys '18
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
Publisher	ACM
Pages	563-567
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5901-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3240323.3240328
Publication status	Published - 27 Sept 2018
Event	12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 2 Oct 2018 → 2 Oct 2018

Conference

Conference	12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
Abbreviated title	RecSys '18
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	2/10/18 → 2/10/18

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Keywords

NLG
recommender system

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Using Textual Summaries to Describe a Set of Products
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