Is it possible to describe television series from online comments?

Abstract Due to the omnipresence of the Internet and Social Media in current society, it has become easy to find groups or communities of people discussing the most varied subjects in discussion forums, social network interactions, or comments on web pages. In this paper, we try to answer the question about whether, even when nothing is explicitly known about the entity referred to in the discussion, it is possible to formulate a general and brief idea of its characteristics when reading comments about it. To study this problem, we characterize a collection of online discussions about television series episodes, investigate the potential that comments have to describe these series, implement several different summarization methods, and finally evaluate these different methods and analyze the results obtained from them. Results reveal that a small set of comments can describe the corresponding episodes and, when taken together, the series as a whole.

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