| 摘要 |
An entity-based summary of an electronic book (e-book) is presented to a user of a client device. The e-book to be summarized is identified and multiple entities, e.g., characters, events and dates, referenced in the identified e-book are also identified. A computer server is adapted to determine a type of the e-book to be summarized and to identify one or more external data sources based on the determined type of the e-book, where an external data source provides information about entities in the identified e-book. Upon receiving a request for an entity-based summary of the e-book from the client device, the computer server is adapted to generate an entity-based summary of the e-book, which describes identified entities referenced in a range of the e-book specified in the request. The generated entity-based summary is presented to the client device responsive to the request. |
