Automatic summarization of Web content to smaller display devices

Web documents usually have complicated layouts and the overall information content can be huge. All these documents are designed for viewing in large screen devices, such as a computer monitor. In recent times, a large number of small screen portable devices, such as personal digital assistants (PDA) and cellular phones, have been made available for mobile browsing. Viewing a Web page originally written for large screen devices using these very small screen devices can be extremely cumbersome. This paper discusses this issue of small viewing form factor of electronics devices from the perspective of Web browsing and proposes an approach to automatically summarize and transform Web documents into a meaningful, readable and above all, browsable format.