We assume that measures of popularity reflects the informativeness, the index required for a summary (Erkan and Radev, 2004), and validate whether popularity can be used as a distant label for extractive summarization.
popularity is not solely determined by content, e.g., a text or an image, but is highly affected by contexts, e.g., timing, and authority (Cheng et al., 2017;Burghardt et al., 2017;Suh et al., 2010;Hessel et al., 2017;Jaech et al., 2015).