This paper reports part of a study to develop a method for automatic multi-document summarization. The current focus is on dissertation abstracts in the field of sociology. The summarization method uses macro-level an...This paper reports part of a study to develop a method for automatic multi-document summarization. The current focus is on dissertation abstracts in the field of sociology. The summarization method uses macro-level and micro-level discourse structure to identify important information that can be extracted from dissertation abstracts, and then uses a variable-based framework to integrate and organize extracted information across dissertation abstracts. This framework focuses more on research concepts and their research relationships found in sociology dissertation abstracts and has a hierarchical structure. A taxonomy is constructed to support the summarization process in two ways： （1） helping to identify important concepts and relations expressed in the text, and （2） providing a structure for linking similar concepts in different abstracts. This paper describes the variable-based framework and the summarization process, and then reports the construction of the taxonomy for supporting the summarization process. An example is provided to show how to use the constructed taxonomy to identify important concepts and integrate the concepts extracted from different abstracts.展开更多
A multi-document summarization method based on Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is proposed. The method combines several reports on the same issue into a matrix of terms and sentences, and uses a Singular Value Decompos...A multi-document summarization method based on Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is proposed. The method combines several reports on the same issue into a matrix of terms and sentences, and uses a Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to reduce the dimension of the matrix and extract features, and then the sentence similarity is computed. The sentences are clustered according to similarity of sentences. The centroid sentences are selected from each class. Finally, the selected sentences are ordered to generate the summarization. The evaluation and results are presented, which prove that the proposed methods are efficient.展开更多
Compared with the traditional method of adding sentences to get summary in multi-document summarization,a two-stage sentence selection approach based on deleting sentences in acandidate sentence set to generate summar...Compared with the traditional method of adding sentences to get summary in multi-document summarization,a two-stage sentence selection approach based on deleting sentences in acandidate sentence set to generate summary is proposed,which has two stages,the acquisition of acandidate sentence set and the optimum selection of sentence.At the first stage,the candidate sentenceset is obtained by redundancy-based sentence selection approach.At the second stage,optimum se-lection of sentences is proposed to delete sentences in the candidate sentence set according to itscontribution to the whole set until getting the appointed summary length.With a test corpus,theROUGE value of summaries gotten by the proposed approach proves its validity,compared with thetraditional method of sentence selection.The influence of the token chosen in the two-stage sentenceselection approach on the quality of the generated summaries is analyzed.展开更多
文摘This paper reports part of a study to develop a method for automatic multi-document summarization. The current focus is on dissertation abstracts in the field of sociology. The summarization method uses macro-level and micro-level discourse structure to identify important information that can be extracted from dissertation abstracts, and then uses a variable-based framework to integrate and organize extracted information across dissertation abstracts. This framework focuses more on research concepts and their research relationships found in sociology dissertation abstracts and has a hierarchical structure. A taxonomy is constructed to support the summarization process in two ways： （1） helping to identify important concepts and relations expressed in the text, and （2） providing a structure for linking similar concepts in different abstracts. This paper describes the variable-based framework and the summarization process, and then reports the construction of the taxonomy for supporting the summarization process. An example is provided to show how to use the constructed taxonomy to identify important concepts and integrate the concepts extracted from different abstracts.
文摘A multi-document summarization method based on Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is proposed. The method combines several reports on the same issue into a matrix of terms and sentences, and uses a Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to reduce the dimension of the matrix and extract features, and then the sentence similarity is computed. The sentences are clustered according to similarity of sentences. The centroid sentences are selected from each class. Finally, the selected sentences are ordered to generate the summarization. The evaluation and results are presented, which prove that the proposed methods are efficient.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60575041)the High Technology Researchand Development Program of China(No.2006AA01Z150).
文摘Compared with the traditional method of adding sentences to get summary in multi-document summarization,a two-stage sentence selection approach based on deleting sentences in acandidate sentence set to generate summary is proposed,which has two stages,the acquisition of acandidate sentence set and the optimum selection of sentence.At the first stage,the candidate sentenceset is obtained by redundancy-based sentence selection approach.At the second stage,optimum se-lection of sentences is proposed to delete sentences in the candidate sentence set according to itscontribution to the whole set until getting the appointed summary length.With a test corpus,theROUGE value of summaries gotten by the proposed approach proves its validity,compared with thetraditional method of sentence selection.The influence of the token chosen in the two-stage sentenceselection approach on the quality of the generated summaries is analyzed.
