- The document discusses automatic summarization of discussion forum threads to help mobile users access long threads more easily. - Researchers collected forum threads annotated by human raters to identify important posts, finding low agreement between raters. - They trained classifiers on this data to select important posts and sentences, evaluating against human summaries. The model achieved a Cohen's Kappa of 0.138, higher than baselines and human-human agreement. In a blind comparison, people preferred the model's summary over a human summary 51.7% of the time.