A method for generating and presenting a comment excerpt in an online publication based on a comment in a comments section is provided. The method may include determining whether a passage from the comment in the comments section is relevant to a sentence in the online publication, and in response to determining that the passage from the comment is relevant to the sentence in the online publication, extracting the passage from the comment. The method may further include determining the scope of the comment that is associated with the extracted passage, wherein determining the scope of the comment comprises determining a context associated with the extracted passage based on text surrounding the extracted passage. The method may further include, based on the determined scope of the comment, generating the comment excerpt that corresponds to the comment. The method may further include presenting the comment excerpt within the online publication.