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An Integrated System for Accessible Summarization of Web Search Results for the Blind and Visually Impaired

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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Computer and Technology Science.

Abstract

Blind and visually impaired individuals encounter significant challenges when accessing search results online, primarily due to the vast amount of information available and the lack of adequate support tools tailored to their needs. While existing solutions like screen readers facilitate sequential exploration of search results and some tools organize results based on user behavior, there remains a gap in providing efficient online summaries of queries specifically tailored for this demographic. This study proposes an integrated system designed to address this gap by providing summarized search results, with a focus on accommodating the Arabic language. Two distinct approaches to online query-based summarization were introduced. The first approach aims to identify the most relevant sentence to the query from the search results, while the second approach utilizes an adaptive technique to extract the most pertinent sentences from the first 'n' documents in the search results. Comparative evaluations were conducted, with the first approach being benchmarked against Google Assistant, while the second approach was assessed based on summaries provided by two human experts and GPT-4. Results indicate that the first approach generally outperformed Google Assistant. Furthermore, experimental evaluations demonstrated the close alignment of the results retrieved by the second approach with the summaries provided by GPT-4, with an average relevancy score of 0.92, and the highest similarity scores of the second proposed system with Experts 2 and 1 are 0.93 and 0.85, respectively. These findings underscore the utility of the proposed system in facilitating access to information for blind and visually impaired individuals.

DOI

10.21608/bjas.2024.295447.1439

Keywords

Online summarization, Extractive multi-document summarization, blind, Visually Impaired, Text-to-Speech

Authors

First Name

Mai

Last Name

bakeer

MiddleName

A

Affiliation

Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

Email

mai.ashraf@fci.bu.edu.eg

City

Benha

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-

First Name

Khaled

Last Name

Fouad

MiddleName

M

Affiliation

Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

Email

kmfi@fci.bu.edu.eg

City

Benha

Orcid

-

First Name

Tarek

Last Name

El-Shishtawy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

Email

t.shishtawy@fci.bu.edu.eg

City

Benha

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-

Volume

9

Article Issue

6

Related Issue

49059

Issue Date

2024-06-01

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2024-06-01

Publish Date

2024-06-27

Page Start

17

Page End

27

Print ISSN

2356-9751

Online ISSN

2356-976X

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https://bjas.journals.ekb.eg/article_366402.html

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https://bjas.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=366402

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Original Research Papers

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1,647

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Publication Title

Benha Journal of Applied Sciences

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https://bjas.journals.ekb.eg/

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An Integrated System for Accessible Summarization of Web Search Results for the Blind and Visually Impaired

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Created At

28 Dec 2024