Systems and methods for generating a social sketch from social communications are provided. Unlike a typical summary of a subject (or of multiple subjects), a social sketch represents a 'snapshot' summary of the social communications of people during a given period of time. The social sketch is generated by obtaining a corpus of social communications and filtering the social communications according to time. The filtered results are clustered according to the subject matter/topics of the social communications. Selected clusters are identified and the topic, representative high quality social communications from non-experts and experts are extracted from each of the selected clusters and saved as a social sketch corresponding to the time period.
SOCIAL SKETCHES