Community authoring content generation and navigation

摘要

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for creating socially authored, or community authored, summaries of documents and/or for navigating a forum comprising such summaries. In one embodiment, at least some of the summaries are generated automatically when a document is written and/or discovered (e.g., by a web crawler), for example. In another embodiment, the documents are created by users of the forum. A plurality of summaries of a document may be created (e.g., by different users), and users can provide feedback, such as comments or ratings, that may assist other users in identifying which summary or summaries better describe the document. Moreover, the users can navigate the forum and retrieve summaries by browsing categories (and subcategories) to identify a topic of interest and/or by performing a search based upon user inputted search term(s).

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
providing, for presentation to a first distinctly identifiable entity, a first summary of a document, the first summary of the document authored by a second distinctly identifiable entity; receiving feedback from the first distinctly identifiable entity resulting in a modification to the first summary of the document to generate a first modified summary of the document; ranking, via a processing unit, the first modified summary of the document relative to a second summary of the document based upon one or more programmatic rankings for one or more of the first modified summary of the document or the second summary of the document, the one or more programmatic rankings based upon a comparison of a first number of unique terms in the first modified summary of the document that match first unique terms in the document with a second number of unique terms in the second summary of the document that match second unique terms in the document; and providing, for presentation to a third distinctly identifiable entity, the first modified summary of the document and the second summary of the document in a first ranked order based upon the ranking.