Responsive text summarization

Responsive text summarization (RTS) is an approach to web design aimed at allowing desktop web pages to be read in response to the size of the device a user is browsing with. RTS implements the TextRank algorithm, so it can be exploited to generate very short summaries (more apt for mobile devices, where screen space is at a premium) or longer, more explicative summaries (more apt e.g. for phablets or laptops). We validate the feasibility of RTS on blog sites and show that runtime performance incurred by our current implementation is negligible. We also show that reading time can be reduced by a factor of 4 without impacting substantially the summary quality. In general, anyone interested in making their web contents concise but informative could benefit from this work. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.